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  4. October 2025
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Tuesday 21 October 2025

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

17

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

2:40 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:38 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 17 times on Tuesday 21 October 2025, the first at 2:40 pm and the last at 11:38 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. Not stated53%
  2. Other47%

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
2:40 pmNot stated21 minEGPD-251
3:09 pmOther10 minEGPD-251
3:49 pmOther12 minEGPD-251
4:56 pmOther7 minEGPD-251
5:07 pmOther15 minEGPD-251
5:39 pmOther17 minEGPD-251
6:31 pmNot stated7 minEGPD-251
6:36 pmNot stated15 minEGPD-251
6:53 pmNot stated18 minEGPD-251
7:12 pmNot stated17 minEGPD-251
7:30 pmNot stated17 minEGPD-251
8:03 pmNot stated17 minEGPD-251
8:27 pmNot stated15 minEGPD-251
8:45 pmOther12 minEGPD-251
10:46 pmOther16 minEGPD-251
11:13 pmOther16 minEGPD-251
11:38 pmNot stated20 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, 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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