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  4. September 2024
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Thursday 19 September 2024

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

14

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

12:39 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:36 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 14 times on Thursday 19 September 2024, the first at 12:39 pm and the last at 8:36 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
12:39 pmNot stated21 minEGPD-240
1:02 pmOther7 minEGPD-240
1:16 pmNot stated16 minEGPD-240
1:42 pmOther6 minEGPD-240
2:00 pmOther21 minEGPD-240
2:48 pmOther14 minEGPD-240
4:06 pmOther9 minEGPD-240
4:23 pmOther20 minEGPD-240
5:06 pmNot stated22 minEGPD-240
5:28 pmOther6 minEGPD-240
6:20 pmOther20 minEGPD-240
6:40 pmOther16 minEGPD-240
7:45 pmOther10 minEGPD-240
8:36 pmOther4 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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