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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 5 December 2025

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

12

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

9:39 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:12 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 12 times on Friday 5 December 2025, the first at 9:39 am and the last at 11:12 pm PST, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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, PST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated75%
  2. Other25%

Flights, in order

12 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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
9:39 amNot stated7 minEGPD-251
10:57 amOther19 minEGPD-251
12:25 pmOther13 minEGPD-251
1:32 pmNot stated28 minEGPD-251
2:17 pmNot stated4 minEGPD-251
2:53 pmNot stated4 minEGPD-251
3:29 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-251
4:53 pmNot stated26 minEGPD-251
5:52 pmNot stated15 minEGPD-251
6:11 pmNot stated18 minEGPD-251
9:10 pmNot stated17 minEGPD-251
11:12 pmOther11 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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