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  4. January 2026
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 30 January 2026

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

15

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

10:27 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:08 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 15 times on Friday 30 January 2026, the first at 10:27 am and the last at 9:08 pm PST, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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. Other67%
  2. Not stated33%

Flights, in order

15 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
10:27 amNot stated18 minEGPD-260
10:48 amNot stated6 minEGPD-260
11:23 amNot stated10 minEGPD-260
11:54 amNot stated4 minEGPD-260
1:44 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-260
3:02 pmOther17 minEGPD-260
4:21 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
4:46 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
5:13 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
5:55 pmOther11 minEGPD-260
6:13 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
6:57 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
7:42 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
8:10 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
9:08 pmOther31 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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