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Alameda County, California · one day

Thursday 24 September 2026

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

12

drone flights over Alameda County that day.

10:56 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:20 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Alameda County police drones flew 12 times on Thursday 24 September 2026, the first at 10:56 am and the last at 7:20 pm PDT, by Alameda County Sheriff's Office's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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, PDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other75%
  2. Call for service17%
  3. Search8%

Flights, in order

12 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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:56 amOther6 minACSO-260
11:06 amOther19 minACSO-260
12:05 pmOther11 minACSO-260
12:20 pmOther12 minACSO-260
1:45 pmCall for service11 minACSO-260
1:48 pmCall for service11 minACSO-260
2:14 pmOther12 minACSO-260
3:06 pmOther14 minACSO-260
4:08 pmOther14 minACSO-260
4:28 pmOther24 minACSO-260
4:29 pmOther16 minACSO-260
7:20 pmSearch1 min 06 sACSO-260

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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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