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  4. October 2025
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 24 October 2025

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

18

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

1:40 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:58 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 18 times on Friday 24 October 2025, the first at 1:40 pm and the last at 10:58 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. Other67%
  2. Not stated33%

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
1:40 pmOther10 minEGPD-251
2:09 pmNot stated16 minEGPD-251
2:39 pmNot stated6 minEGPD-251
3:10 pmNot stated13 minEGPD-251
3:54 pmNot stated10 minEGPD-251
4:29 pmOther19 minEGPD-251
5:01 pmOther9 minEGPD-251
5:26 pmOther16 minEGPD-251
6:03 pmOther11 minEGPD-251
6:18 pmOther9 minEGPD-251
6:46 pmOther12 minEGPD-251
7:43 pmOther12 minEGPD-251
7:58 pmOther20 minEGPD-251
8:20 pmNot stated19 minEGPD-251
8:43 pmNot stated16 minEGPD-251
9:33 pmOther10 minEGPD-251
9:47 pmOther13 minEGPD-251
10:58 pmOther18 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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