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San Jose, California

Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office

San Jose, California. 802 flights in the record from December 2024.

802

drone flights in the published record.

22

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office drones flew 802 times between 9 December 2024 and 13 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 22 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 22 of 22 flights in October 2026.

20 of the 20 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

209 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 24 minutes.

37% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PST).

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. 20
  2. 12
  3. 11
  4. 11
  5. 14
  6. 52
  7. 39
  8. 36
  9. 47
  10. 36
  11. 27
  12. 124
  13. 31
  14. 47
  15. 72
  16. 27
  17. 39
  18. 21
  19. 4
  20. 28
  21. 41
  22. 41
  23. 22
Dec 24Jan 25Feb 25Mar 25Apr 25May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 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 802 flights.

  1. Call for service74%
  2. Search15%
  3. Other9%
  4. Not stated3%

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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 20264:18 pmSearch22 min6086b975
Fri 2 Oct 20265:08 pmSearch8 min1fe785d7
Fri 2 Oct 20265:34 pmSearch23 mind5b312dd
Fri 2 Oct 20266:00 pmSearch21 min603a8ac6
Fri 2 Oct 20266:23 pmSearch23 min8ced3a27
Fri 2 Oct 20266:49 pmSearch23 min4188133f
Fri 2 Oct 20267:14 pmSearch7 min464275f8
Sun 4 Oct 20266:25 pmSearch20 min72115475
Sun 4 Oct 20266:26 pmSearch21 min8efe764f
Sun 4 Oct 20266:47 pmSearch22 s3b338e0a
Mon 5 Oct 20269:54 pmSearch1 min 46 sc549baaa
Wed 7 Oct 20262:55 amCall for service9 mine14f95f6
Wed 7 Oct 20269:36 pmCall for service13 min2b776703
Wed 7 Oct 20269:42 pmCall for service14 min3e9965a8
Wed 7 Oct 20269:50 pmCall for service16 min2962139d
Wed 7 Oct 20269:58 pmCall for service14 min50b941cf
Wed 7 Oct 202610:07 pmCall for service17 mine9d8ef48
Wed 7 Oct 202610:14 pmCall for service15 min87b01eaf
Wed 7 Oct 202610:28 pmCall for service6 min8102bff2
Wed 7 Oct 202610:30 pmCall for service14 minc3d4b43e
Thu 8 Oct 20261:50 pmCall for service20 min0cf84955
Tue 13 Oct 202611:39 pmCall for service13 minc7956aa3

All 22 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.
  • Published by the feed named: Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.

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