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Alameda County, California · one day

Thursday 22 January 2026

11 drone flights from Alameda County Sheriff's Office's published record.

11

drone flights over Alameda County that day.

11:10 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:04 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Alameda County police drones flew 11 times on Thursday 22 January 2026, the first at 11:10 am and the last at 7:04 pm PST, by Alameda County Sheriff's Office's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other55%
  2. Not stated27%
  3. Traffic and crashes18%

Flights, in order

11 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
11:10 amOther13 minACSO-260
11:32 amOther18 minACSO-260
12:46 pmTraffic and crashes8 minACSO-260
1:23 pmTraffic and crashes16 minACSO-260
4:25 pmOther28 minACSO-260
5:06 pmNot stated13 minACSO-260
5:09 pmOther8 minACSO-260
5:51 pmOther19 minACSO-260
5:53 pmOther31 minACSO-260
6:13 pmNot stated22 minACSO-260
7:04 pmNot stated3 minACSO-260

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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