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  4. September 2025
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Saturday 20 September 2025

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

17

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

12:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:10 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 17 times on Saturday 20 September 2025, the first at 12:06 am and the last at 11:10 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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. Other65%
  2. Not stated35%

Flights, in order

17 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
12:06 amOther14 minEGPD-250
2:36 pmNot stated6 minEGPD-250
3:04 pmOther8 minEGPD-250
4:03 pmOther11 minEGPD-250
4:14 pmOther20 minEGPD-250
4:37 pmNot stated25 minEGPD-250
5:04 pmOther12 minEGPD-250
5:31 pmOther10 minEGPD-250
5:38 pmNot stated10 minEGPD-250
5:51 pmOther22 minEGPD-250
7:14 pmOther14 minEGPD-250
7:55 pmNot stated6 minEGPD-250
8:15 pmOther16 minEGPD-250
9:33 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-250
9:49 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-250
10:48 pmOther20 minEGPD-250
11:10 pmOther19 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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