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  4. September 2025
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Wednesday 17 September 2025

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

20

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

10:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:36 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 20 times on Wednesday 17 September 2025, the first at 10:15 am and the last at 11:36 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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 stated50%
  2. Other50%

Flights, in order

20 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
10:15 amNot stated24 minEGPD-250
10:42 amNot stated13 minEGPD-250
1:30 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-250
2:15 pmOther10 minEGPD-250
2:59 pmOther20 minEGPD-250
3:53 pmOther10 minEGPD-250
4:41 pmNot stated3 minEGPD-250
6:00 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
6:10 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-250
6:49 pmNot stated19 minEGPD-250
7:04 pmNot stated6 minEGPD-250
7:24 pmOther12 minEGPD-250
7:50 pmNot stated20 minEGPD-250
8:12 pmOther4 minEGPD-250
8:53 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-250
9:13 pmOther13 minEGPD-250
9:38 pmOther14 minEGPD-250
10:06 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-250
10:18 pmOther17 minEGPD-250
11:36 pmOther8 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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