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  4. March 2026
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Monday 16 March 2026

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

30

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

7:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:28 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 30 times on Monday 16 March 2026, the first at 7:23 am and the last at 11:28 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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. Other83%
  2. Not stated17%

Flights, in order

30 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
7:23 amOther8 minEGPD-260
8:05 amOther12 minEGPD-260
8:30 amOther13 minEGPD-260
8:34 amOther16 minEGPD-260
10:12 amOther15 minEGPD-260
11:05 amOther12 minEGPD-260
11:14 amOther13 minEGPD-260
11:23 amOther6 minEGPD-260
11:29 amOther13 minEGPD-260
11:38 amOther4 minEGPD-260
11:47 amOther11 minEGPD-260
12:07 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
12:32 pmOther11 minEGPD-260
12:33 pmNot stated9 minEGPD-260
1:05 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
1:19 pmNot stated7 minEGPD-260
1:24 pmOther32 minEGPD-260
1:27 pmNot stated4 minEGPD-260
1:40 pmNot stated5 minEGPD-260
2:10 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
2:42 pmOther2 minEGPD-260
4:17 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
4:34 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
5:35 pmOther13 minEGPD-260
6:08 pmOther96 minEGPD-260
6:31 pmNot stated14 minEGPD-260
8:18 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
8:36 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
9:58 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
11:28 pmOther11 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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