A series of weekend outages that hobbled Oakland’s 911 dispatch network brought sharp criticism from the city’s police union and raised new questions about the vulnerability of the city’s emergency services.

Oakland’s 911 automated dispatching system failed Friday after a power outage caused the system to go down Thursday night, according to the Oakland Police Officers’ Association. The problem was fixed for less than 24 hours before service was disrupted again on Saturday morning, city officials said.

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Deidre Foley is an intern at Bay City News and an MA candidate at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she specializes in data journalism and health & science reporting. Previously she was managing editor for the San Francisco Foghorn and has bylines in the NYCity News Service, Byklner and the Nagazasshi. Deidre is interested in using data and visuals to tell social justice and human interest stories.