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  4. August 2025
  5. 31

Elk Grove, California · one day

Sunday 31 August 2025

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

16

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

3:13 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:37 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 16 times on Sunday 31 August 2025, the first at 3:13 pm and the last at 11:37 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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. Other62%
  2. Not stated38%

Flights, in order

16 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
3:13 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
3:28 pmNot stated13 minEGPD-250
3:53 pmOther13 minEGPD-250
4:51 pmNot stated3 minEGPD-250
5:00 pmOther14 minEGPD-250
5:16 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
6:54 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-250
7:29 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-250
7:59 pmOther2 minEGPD-250
8:00 pmOther17 minEGPD-250
8:44 pmOther20 minEGPD-250
9:03 pmNot stated16 minEGPD-250
9:28 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
9:45 pmNot stated16 minEGPD-250
10:44 pmOther12 minEGPD-250
11:37 pmOther16 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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