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  4. August 2024
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Wednesday 28 August 2024

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

14

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

2:21 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:39 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 14 times on Wednesday 28 August 2024, the first at 2:21 pm and the last at 10:39 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. Other79%
  2. Not stated21%

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
2:21 pmOther14 minEGPD-240
2:36 pmOther7 minEGPD-240
3:11 pmOther14 minEGPD-240
3:32 pmOther14 minEGPD-240
3:56 pmOther21 minEGPD-240
4:17 pmNot stated23 minEGPD-240
4:40 pmNot stated10 minEGPD-240
6:31 pmOther11 minEGPD-240
7:02 pmOther20 minEGPD-240
7:40 pmOther22 minEGPD-240
8:12 pmOther11 minEGPD-240
8:53 pmOther17 minEGPD-240
10:08 pmOther11 minEGPD-240
10:39 pmNot stated1 min 06 sEGPD-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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