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  4. July 2026
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Tuesday 7 July 2026

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

13

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

4:59 am

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

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 13 times on Tuesday 7 July 2026, the first at 4:59 am and the last at 9:22 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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

13 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
4:59 amOther14 minEGPD-260
8:11 amOther4 minEGPD-260
8:14 amOther5 minEGPD-260
8:42 amOther7 minEGPD-260
9:01 amOther10 minEGPD-260
9:23 amOther4 minEGPD-260
11:03 amOther12 minEGPD-260
5:47 pmOther3 minEGPD-260
6:34 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
7:37 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
8:34 pmNot stated8 minEGPD-260
8:56 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
9:22 pmOther8 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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