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  4. April 2026
  5. 9

Elk Grove, California · one day

Thursday 9 April 2026

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

23

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

6:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:35 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 23 times on Thursday 9 April 2026, the first at 6:08 am and the last at 8:35 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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. Other78%
  2. Not stated17%
  3. Search4%

Flights, in order

23 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
6:08 amOther3 minEGPD-260
6:13 amNot stated3 minEGPD-260
6:21 amNot stated4 minEGPD-260
6:28 amNot stated4 minEGPD-260
6:58 amOther22 minEGPD-260
8:17 amOther11 minEGPD-260
8:47 amOther23 minEGPD-260
9:50 amOther12 minEGPD-260
11:05 amOther18 minEGPD-260
11:13 amNot stated8 minEGPD-260
12:04 pmSearch10 minEGPD-260
1:07 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
1:43 pmOther19 minEGPD-260
2:52 pmOther3 minEGPD-260
3:07 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
3:16 pmOther20 minEGPD-260
3:45 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
4:04 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
4:29 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
4:36 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
4:48 pmOther11 minEGPD-260
5:31 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
8:35 pmOther3 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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