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  4. October 2025
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Saturday 18 October 2025

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

20

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

9:18 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:16 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 20 times on Saturday 18 October 2025, the first at 9:18 am and the last at 11:16 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. Other55%
  2. Not stated45%

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
9:18 amNot stated16 minEGPD-251
9:34 amNot stated1 min 24 sEGPD-251
9:48 amNot stated7 minEGPD-251
10:09 amNot stated21 minEGPD-251
10:33 amNot stated21 minEGPD-251
10:59 amNot stated22 minEGPD-251
11:26 amNot stated25 minEGPD-251
11:54 amNot stated21 minEGPD-251
12:21 pmNot stated4 minEGPD-251
3:20 pmOther24 minEGPD-251
4:13 pmOther17 minEGPD-251
6:24 pmOther8 minEGPD-251
6:35 pmOther17 minEGPD-251
7:02 pmOther8 minEGPD-251
7:46 pmOther9 minEGPD-251
7:51 pmOther22 minEGPD-251
9:12 pmOther6 minEGPD-251
9:24 pmOther10 minEGPD-251
11:00 pmOther7 minEGPD-251
11:16 pmOther30 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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