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  4. May 2026
  5. 12

Elk Grove, California · one day

Tuesday 12 May 2026

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

30

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

7:34 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:23 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 30 times on Tuesday 12 May 2026, the first at 7:34 am and the last at 11:23 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. Other80%
  2. Not stated17%
  3. Search3%

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
7:34 amOther17 minEGPD-260
8:01 amOther8 minEGPD-260
8:12 amOther4 minEGPD-260
8:34 amOther11 minEGPD-260
9:12 amOther4 minEGPD-260
9:34 amNot stated3 minEGPD-260
9:50 amOther13 minEGPD-260
10:22 amOther8 minEGPD-260
11:28 amOther5 minEGPD-260
11:56 amOther5 minEGPD-260
12:09 pmOther11 minEGPD-260
12:34 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
12:36 pmOther17 minEGPD-260
1:22 pmOther1 min 30 sEGPD-260
1:22 pmOther17 minEGPD-260
3:01 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
3:10 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
3:43 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
4:17 pmNot stated19 minEGPD-260
4:43 pmNot stated6 minEGPD-260
5:36 pmNot stated9 minEGPD-260
5:42 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
6:32 pmSearch21 minEGPD-260
7:43 pmNot stated11 minEGPD-260
7:52 pmOther28 minEGPD-260
8:45 pmOther18 minEGPD-260
10:02 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
10:37 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
11:08 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
11:23 pmOther22 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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