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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 3 July 2026

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

21

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

6:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:22 pm.

21 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 21 times on Friday 3 July 2026, the first at 6:03 am and the last at 9:22 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. Other100%

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
6:03 amOther11 minEGPD-260
10:53 amOther11 minEGPD-260
1:13 pmOther3 minEGPD-260
1:24 pmOther1 min 36 sEGPD-260
3:25 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
5:21 pmOther20 minEGPD-260
5:33 pmOther21 minEGPD-260
5:45 pmOther26 minEGPD-260
6:03 pmOther24 minEGPD-260
6:16 pmOther21 minEGPD-260
6:30 pmOther19 minEGPD-260
6:40 pmOther25 minEGPD-260
6:57 pmOther27 minEGPD-260
7:09 pmOther26 minEGPD-260
7:26 pmOther21 minEGPD-260
7:41 pmOther23 minEGPD-260
7:55 pmOther20 minEGPD-260
8:15 pmOther20 minEGPD-260
8:27 pmOther24 minEGPD-260
8:52 pmOther26 minEGPD-260
9:22 pmOther23 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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