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  4. April 2026
  5. 27

Elk Grove, California · one day

Monday 27 April 2026

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

32

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

7:18 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:24 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 32 times on Monday 27 April 2026, the first at 7:18 am and the last at 11:24 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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. Other62%
  2. Not stated38%

Flights, in order

32 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
7:18 amOther14 minEGPD-260
7:46 amOther9 minEGPD-260
8:35 amOther12 minEGPD-260
8:46 amOther12 minEGPD-260
11:10 amOther19 minEGPD-260
11:47 amOther17 minEGPD-260
12:07 pmOther22 minEGPD-260
12:32 pmOther22 minEGPD-260
2:57 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
3:14 pmNot stated2 minEGPD-260
3:17 pmNot stated9 minEGPD-260
3:28 pmNot stated16 minEGPD-260
3:42 pmOther13 minEGPD-260
3:49 pmNot stated18 minEGPD-260
4:04 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
4:12 pmNot stated14 minEGPD-260
4:30 pmNot stated22 minEGPD-260
4:54 pmNot stated24 minEGPD-260
5:18 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
5:20 pmNot stated18 minEGPD-260
5:42 pmNot stated18 minEGPD-260
5:57 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
6:05 pmNot stated19 minEGPD-260
6:21 pmOther20 minEGPD-260
6:25 pmNot stated16 minEGPD-260
7:22 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
8:05 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
9:04 pmNot stated13 minEGPD-260
9:12 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
9:50 pmOther20 minEGPD-260
10:12 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
11:24 pmOther13 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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