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  4. September 2025
  5. 16

Elk Grove, California · one day

Tuesday 16 September 2025

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

18

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

10:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:33 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 18 times on Tuesday 16 September 2025, the first at 10:30 am and the last at 10:33 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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. Other61%
  2. Not stated39%

Flights, in order

18 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
10:30 amOther12 minEGPD-250
10:55 amNot stated15 minEGPD-250
1:12 pmOther5 minEGPD-250
1:21 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
1:34 pmNot stated3 minEGPD-250
1:59 pmNot stated3 minEGPD-250
2:03 pmNot stated3 minEGPD-250
2:16 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
2:47 pmNot stated3 minEGPD-250
3:31 pmOther13 minEGPD-250
4:06 pmNot stated8 minEGPD-250
4:17 pmOther15 minEGPD-250
5:18 pmOther10 minEGPD-250
6:26 pmOther14 minEGPD-250
8:44 pmOther9 minEGPD-250
9:11 pmOther21 minEGPD-250
10:20 pmNot stated10 minEGPD-250
10:33 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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