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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 1 May 2026

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

40

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

9:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:49 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 40 times on Friday 1 May 2026, the first at 9:21 am and the last at 11:49 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

40 drawable flights of 40. 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. Other92%
  2. Not stated8%

Flights, in order

40 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
9:21 amOther17 minEGPD-260
9:53 amOther17 minEGPD-260
11:38 amOther4 minEGPD-260
2:16 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
2:59 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
3:37 pmOther18 minEGPD-260
3:43 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
3:53 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
4:11 pmNot stated3 minEGPD-260
4:11 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
4:19 pmOther17 minEGPD-260
4:40 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
4:54 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
5:08 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
5:10 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
5:14 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
6:14 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
7:03 pmOther26 minEGPD-260
7:33 pmOther25 minEGPD-260
7:47 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
8:01 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
8:05 pmNot stated21 minEGPD-260
8:21 pmNot stated2 minEGPD-260
8:23 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
8:31 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
8:40 pmOther18 minEGPD-260
8:53 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
9:10 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
9:22 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
9:26 pmOther17 minEGPD-260
9:32 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
9:52 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
10:07 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
10:08 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
10:19 pmOther3 minEGPD-260
10:19 pmOther3 minEGPD-260
10:28 pmOther16 minEGPD-260
11:14 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
11:34 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
11:49 pmOther15 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, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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