CityDroneWatch
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  4. August 2025
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 22 August 2025

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

21

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

2:54 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:27 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 21 times on Friday 22 August 2025, the first at 2:54 pm and the last at 11:27 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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. Not stated71%
  2. Other29%

Flights, in order

21 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
2:54 pmOther16 minEGPD-250
4:01 pmNot stated25 minEGPD-250
4:28 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-250
5:00 pmNot stated22 minEGPD-250
5:44 pmNot stated21 minEGPD-250
6:18 pmOther22 minEGPD-250
6:34 pmNot stated19 minEGPD-250
7:12 pmNot stated22 minEGPD-250
7:19 pmNot stated23 minEGPD-250
7:38 pmNot stated17 minEGPD-250
7:48 pmNot stated17 minEGPD-250
8:11 pmOther20 minEGPD-250
8:30 pmOther15 minEGPD-250
9:30 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
9:52 pmNot stated20 minEGPD-250
10:29 pmNot stated6 minEGPD-250
10:47 pmNot stated13 minEGPD-250
10:54 pmNot stated10 minEGPD-250
11:03 pmNot stated20 minEGPD-250
11:03 pmNot stated15 minEGPD-250
11:27 pmOther13 minEGPD-250

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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