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  4. January 2026
  5. 26

Elk Grove, California · one day

Monday 26 January 2026

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

27

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

7:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:14 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 27 times on Monday 26 January 2026, the first at 7:03 am and the last at 11:14 pm PST, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

27 drawable flights of 27. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other59%
  2. Not stated41%

Flights, in order

27 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
7:03 amNot stated1 min 30 sEGPD-260
7:05 amNot stated2 minEGPD-260
7:36 amNot stated1 min 54 sEGPD-260
7:44 amNot stated3 minEGPD-260
8:28 amOther24 minEGPD-260
8:58 amOther9 minEGPD-260
9:32 amOther10 minEGPD-260
10:14 amOther17 minEGPD-260
10:45 amOther8 minEGPD-260
11:13 amOther7 minEGPD-260
11:49 amOther13 minEGPD-260
12:10 pmOther1 min 30 sEGPD-260
12:12 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
1:05 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-260
1:43 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
3:05 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
3:08 pmNot stated19 minEGPD-260
3:30 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
3:45 pmNot stated5 minEGPD-260
3:57 pmNot stated14 minEGPD-260
4:11 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-260
4:30 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
6:06 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
6:49 pmOther18 minEGPD-260
7:07 pmNot stated14 minEGPD-260
7:53 pmNot stated7 minEGPD-260
11:14 pmOther13 minEGPD-260

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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