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  4. September 2025
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 5 September 2025

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

19

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

2:10 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:29 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 19 times on Friday 5 September 2025, the first at 2:10 pm and the last at 11:29 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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. Other68%
  2. Not stated32%

Flights, in order

19 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
2:10 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
2:15 pmNot stated5 minEGPD-250
3:26 pmNot stated18 minEGPD-250
3:45 pmOther17 minEGPD-250
4:05 pmOther14 minEGPD-250
4:25 pmOther18 minEGPD-250
5:25 pmOther14 minEGPD-250
5:51 pmOther8 minEGPD-250
6:21 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-250
6:35 pmNot stated20 minEGPD-250
7:12 pmOther20 minEGPD-250
7:34 pmNot stated15 minEGPD-250
7:52 pmOther13 minEGPD-250
8:38 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-250
8:56 pmOther9 minEGPD-250
9:53 pmOther13 minEGPD-250
10:53 pmOther6 minEGPD-250
11:09 pmOther17 minEGPD-250
11:29 pmOther17 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, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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