CityDroneWatch
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  3. Elk Grove
  4. August 2024
  5. 7

Elk Grove, California · one day

Wednesday 7 August 2024

14 drone flights from Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

14

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

12:11 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:24 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 14 times on Wednesday 7 August 2024, the first at 12:11 pm and the last at 9:24 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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. Other71%
  2. Not stated29%

Flights, in order

14 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
12:11 pmNot stated36 sEGPD-240
2:33 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-240
2:49 pmOther14 minEGPD-240
3:17 pmOther17 minEGPD-240
3:36 pmOther23 minEGPD-240
4:13 pmOther16 minEGPD-240
5:00 pmOther20 minEGPD-240
5:59 pmOther9 minEGPD-240
6:21 pmOther8 minEGPD-240
7:15 pmNot stated25 minEGPD-240
8:38 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-240
9:02 pmOther9 minEGPD-240
9:13 pmOther6 minEGPD-240
9:24 pmOther18 minEGPD-240

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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