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Paradise, California

Paradise Police Department

Paradise, California. 48 flights in the record from July 2026.

48

drone flights in the published record.

6

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Paradise Police Department drones flew 48 times between 8 July 2026 and 30 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 6 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 6 of 6 flights in October 2026.

5 of the 5 drawable flights in October 2026, sampled evenly. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed

8 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 20 minutes.

0% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

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

  1. 1
  2. 0
  3. 41
  4. 6
Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is 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 48 flights.

  1. Not stated96%
  2. Other4%

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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 21 Oct 202611:22 amOther20 min3fc875b9
Wed 21 Oct 20263:47 pmNot stated14 min15fe12cb
Thu 22 Oct 20267:23 amNot stated3 min65961247
Thu 22 Oct 20264:03 pmNot stated17 min3ea5b3f3
Thu 29 Oct 20263:51 pmNot stated17 min804f5918
Fri 30 Oct 20261:12 pmOther19 min5f951fe4

All 6 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 300 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. Each month's flights are a static JSON file under flights/ next to this page; the whole-record option is an even 300-flight sample.
  • Record source: Paradise Police Department, via BRINC LiveOps public dashboard (https://dashboard.liveops.brincdrones.com/paradisepdca), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; republication accepted by the owner 2026-11-01 (docs/rights-memo.md). Read from ../var/lib/drone-publish/work/sources/brinc/paradise-pd-ca.json, no network at build time.

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