Mobile County court system internet disruption reschedules dockets

5 articles · Updated · Fox 10 News · May 4

In Mobile, Alabama, District Judge Zackery Moore's Monday docket was moved to Wednesday after an AT&T fiber cut on Friday hit Government Plaza's secure court link.
Presiding Circuit Judge Wesley Pipes said staff could not access Alacourt, though the courthouse stayed open, bond hearings continued at Metro Jail and jury selection proceeded with slower internet.
The cut disrupted the courts' secure connection to the Administrative Office of Courts in Montgomery, while city and county offices elsewhere in Government Plaza operated normally and AT&T gave no restoration timeline.

With AT&T facing lawsuits for unreliability, can public services afford to depend on its network for critical operations?

Was the fiber cut that crippled Mobile's courts a random accident, or a deliberate test of America's vulnerable infrastructure?