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Elk Grove, California · one day

Wednesday 1 October 2025

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

18

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

11:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:28 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 18 times on Wednesday 1 October 2025, the first at 11:30 am and the last at 11:28 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 stated28%
  3. Search11%

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
11:30 amNot stated3 minEGPD-251
12:35 pmNot stated5 minEGPD-251
1:59 pmNot stated4 minEGPD-251
2:39 pmNot stated6 minEGPD-251
3:09 pmOther12 minEGPD-251
3:24 pmNot stated10 minEGPD-251
3:29 pmOther13 minEGPD-251
5:40 pmOther16 minEGPD-251
5:55 pmOther8 minEGPD-251
6:20 pmSearch13 minEGPD-251
6:35 pmOther16 minEGPD-251
6:55 pmSearch15 minEGPD-251
7:23 pmOther8 minEGPD-251
7:45 pmOther9 minEGPD-251
8:05 pmOther10 minEGPD-251
9:02 pmOther15 minEGPD-251
10:19 pmOther14 minEGPD-251
11:28 pmOther7 minEGPD-251

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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