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Elm Ridge, Texas

Elm Ridge Police Department

Elm Ridge, Texas. 120 flights in the record from March 2026.

120

drone flights in the published record.

52

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Where this record comes from

Flock Safety Aerodome? Flock Safety sells licence-plate readers and, through its Aerodome line, drone-as-first-responder systems. Agencies using Aerodome can publish a community transparency dashboard of their drone flights.

This record publishes takeoff and landing to the second, stated call type, block-level address, and a sampled GPS track per flight. Open Elm Ridge Police Department's own published record.

Elm Ridge Police Department drones flew 120 times between 2 March 2026 and 31 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 52 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 52 of 52 flights in October 2026.

52 of the 52 drawable flights in October 2026, sampled evenly. Each path is the whole flight; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area instead.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

29 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 24 minutes.

6% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.

  1. Mar 2026: 11 flights. 11
  2. Apr 2026: 21 flights. 21
  3. May 2026: 12 flights. 12
  4. Jun 2026: 9 flights. 9
  5. Jul 2026: 8 flights. 8
  6. Aug 2026: 2 flights. 2
  7. Sep 2026: 5 flights. 5
  8. Oct 2026: 52 flights. 52
Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 120 flights.

  1. Not stated98%
  2. Other2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.

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Flight list, October 2026

Every listable flight in the view, oldest first: date, takeoff time, purpose class, time airborne and the first eight characters of the source flight id. The filters above the map apply here too.

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 6 Oct 202610:43 amNot stated6 minERPD-261
Tue 6 Oct 202611:03 amNot stated9 minERPD-261
Thu 8 Oct 20261:34 pmNot stated7 minERPD-261
Thu 8 Oct 20262:15 pmNot stated4 minERPD-261
Thu 8 Oct 20262:30 pmNot stated8 minERPD-261
Thu 8 Oct 20263:54 pmNot stated9 minERPD-261
Mon 12 Oct 20262:16 pmNot stated11 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 20267:12 amNot stated8 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 20267:38 amNot stated26 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 20268:31 amNot stated27 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 20269:33 amNot stated25 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 202610:48 amNot stated28 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 202612:20 pmNot stated20 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 20261:18 pmNot stated18 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 20262:16 pmNot stated19 minERPD-261
Tue 13 Oct 20262:39 pmNot stated16 minERPD-261
Wed 14 Oct 202611:26 amNot stated8 minERPD-261
Wed 14 Oct 202611:48 amNot stated11 minERPD-261
Wed 14 Oct 202612:42 pmNot stated23 minERPD-261
Wed 14 Oct 20261:37 pmNot stated24 minERPD-261
Wed 14 Oct 20264:58 pmNot stated12 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 20266:26 amNot stated1 min 06 sERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 20266:51 amNot stated8 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 20267:09 amNot stated18 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 202610:03 amNot stated12 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 202610:28 amNot stated19 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 202611:06 amNot stated18 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 202611:48 amNot stated17 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 202612:21 pmNot stated14 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 20266:14 pmNot stated17 minERPD-261
Thu 15 Oct 20268:20 pmNot stated17 minERPD-261
Sun 18 Oct 20268:36 pmNot stated18 minERPD-261
Sun 18 Oct 20269:03 pmNot stated6 minERPD-261
Sun 18 Oct 20269:15 pmNot stated6 minERPD-261
Mon 19 Oct 20261:41 amNot stated12 minERPD-261
Mon 19 Oct 20265:45 amNot stated13 minERPD-261
Mon 19 Oct 20266:24 amNot stated15 minERPD-261
Tue 20 Oct 20262:18 pmNot stated11 minERPD-261
Tue 20 Oct 20265:18 pmNot stated20 minERPD-261
Wed 21 Oct 202612:34 amNot stated22 minERPD-261
Thu 22 Oct 20261:20 amOther13 minERPD-261
Thu 22 Oct 20267:25 amNot stated16 minERPD-261
Thu 22 Oct 20268:16 amNot stated12 minERPD-261
Thu 22 Oct 20261:15 pmNot stated5 minERPD-261
Thu 22 Oct 20263:09 pmNot stated9 minERPD-261
Sat 24 Oct 202610:12 pmNot stated25 minERPD-261
Mon 26 Oct 20267:33 pmNot stated11 minERPD-261
Wed 28 Oct 20261:03 pmNot stated16 minERPD-261
Wed 28 Oct 20268:22 pmOther14 minERPD-261
Fri 30 Oct 20268:48 amNot stated3 minERPD-261
Sat 31 Oct 20262:30 pmNot stated5 minERPD-261
Sat 31 Oct 20262:43 pmNot stated18 minERPD-261

All 52 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 400 flights, sampled evenly from the latest full month, and the flight list is that month, capped at 500 rows. With filters the map draws at most 400 and the list at most 500, both sampled evenly, and the count line says when a cap applied. The whole-record option is an even 400-flight sample.
  • Record source: Elm Ridge Police Department, via Flock Safety Aerodome community dashboard (https://community.elm-ridge.tx.us.aerodome.com/flights), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; robots.txt Disallow: /.?

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