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  4. April 2026
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Saturday 4 April 2026

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

21

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

8:10 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:59 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 21 times on Saturday 4 April 2026, the first at 8:10 am and the last at 7:59 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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. Other95%
  2. Not stated5%

Flights, in order

21 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
8:10 amOther16 minEGPD-260
8:48 amOther1 min 30 sEGPD-260
8:49 amNot stated3 minEGPD-260
9:17 amOther16 minEGPD-260
9:35 amOther14 minEGPD-260
10:34 amOther7 minEGPD-260
10:51 amOther9 minEGPD-260
11:14 amOther18 minEGPD-260
12:10 pmOther16 minEGPD-260
12:56 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
1:59 pmOther21 minEGPD-260
3:26 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
4:29 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
4:48 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
4:55 pmOther5 minEGPD-260
5:01 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
5:28 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
6:01 pmOther16 minEGPD-260
7:28 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
7:37 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
7:59 pmOther4 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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