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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 20 February 2026

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

20

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

2:00 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:53 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 20 times on Friday 20 February 2026, the first at 2:00 pm and the last at 11:53 pm PST, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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. Other95%
  2. Not stated5%

Flights, in order

20 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
2:00 pmOther16 minEGPD-260
2:20 pmNot stated15 minEGPD-260
2:38 pmOther17 minEGPD-260
3:41 pmOther19 minEGPD-260
3:59 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
4:22 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
5:02 pmOther3 minEGPD-260
6:22 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
6:55 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
7:36 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
7:46 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
8:11 pmOther11 minEGPD-260
8:27 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
8:53 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
9:21 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
9:38 pmOther11 minEGPD-260
9:54 pmOther13 minEGPD-260
10:05 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
11:00 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
11:53 pmOther6 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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