{
  "id": "2026-08-28-college-of-central-florida-ocala-bomb-threat-evacuation",
  "slug": "college-of-central-florida-ocala-bomb-threat-evacuation-2026-08-28",
  "institution": {
    "name": "College of Central Florida",
    "shortName": "CF",
    "state": "FL",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "RAVE Emergency Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-08-28",
    "type": "bomb-threat",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "unfounded",
    "headline": "Ocala campus evacuated after a reported bomb threat",
    "headlinePublic": "Ocala campus evacuated after a reported bomb threat",
    "summary": "College of Central Florida [ordered an Ocala campus evacuation at 12:08 p.m. for a reported threat](https://www.cf.edu/about-cf/news/2026/emergency-alert/) and [confirmed the campus safe at 2:38 p.m. after a bomb-threat investigation](https://www.cf.edu/about-cf/news/2026/emergency-alert/), with classes remaining canceled August 28.",
    "outcome": "Ocala Police Department confirmed the campus safe. Classes and activities at all CF campuses remained canceled for Aug. 28; regular operations resume Saturday Aug. 29."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "12:08 p.m. August 28, 2026 (page clock)",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "The CF Ocala Campus is currently being evacuated due to a reported threat. All students and employees must leave campus grounds while the threat is being investigated. More information will be posted here and sent out via the RAVE Emergency Alert system as it becomes available.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cf.edu/about-cf/news/2026/emergency-alert/",
      "sourceDescription": "College of Central Florida official Emergency Alert page, 12:08 p.m. product",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual fetch of cf.edu emergency-alert HTML and WP REST posts?slug=emergency-alert (id 31737). 12:08 paragraph matches. Page also names RAVE as a delivery channel; Rave RSS slugs cf/channel1, cfedu/channel1, centralflorida/channel1 returned 404.",
        "Official initial says reported threat, not bomb threat; the 2:38 update names a bomb threat. Initial wording preserved.",
        "Thread checked 2026-08-30: no official X product found for this incident. Facebook all-clear graphic is not byte-identical to the webpage update (not used for confirmation).",
        "New institution. Do not confuse with University of Central Florida. No prior CF cases on disk."
      ],
      "characterCount": 278
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "2:38 p.m. August 28, 2026 (page clock)",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "The Ocala Campus has been confirmed safe by Ocala Police Department after investigation of a bomb threat.\n\nClasses and activities at all CF campuses remain canceled for Aug. 28. Regular operations will resume Saturday, Aug. 29. Saturday classes and activities will be held at their regular times and locations. CF students and employees can now return to campus to collect their belongings.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cf.edu/about-cf/news/2026/emergency-alert/",
      "sourceDescription": "College of Central Florida official Emergency Alert page, 2:38 p.m. update",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual HTML/REST match. Confirmed safe plus remaining cancellation is one 2:38 product. Bomb threat named here, not in the 12:08 initial."
      ],
      "characterCount": 390
    }
  ],
  "context": "College of Central Florida (Ocala) posted this [Emergency Alert](https://www.cf.edu/about-cf/news/2026/emergency-alert/) on its news site. RAVE is named as the mass-notification channel; public getrave.com RSS slugs 404'd this session.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The 12:08 product orders an evacuation for a reported threat; the 2:38 product names a bomb threat and confirms the campus safe.",
    "New institution in the archive."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Emergency Alert (College of Central Florida)",
      "url": "https://www.cf.edu/about-cf/news/2026/emergency-alert/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-30"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "central-florida",
    "bomb-threat",
    "evacuation",
    "2026"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-31",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}