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  4. August 2026
  5. 14

Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 14 August 2026

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

24

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

6:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:52 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 24 times on Friday 14 August 2026, the first at 6:07 am and the last at 9:52 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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. Search4%
  3. Not stated4%

Flights, in order

24 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
6:07 amOther7 minEGPD-260
6:13 amOther2 minEGPD-260
6:19 amOther4 minEGPD-260
6:24 amOther3 minEGPD-260
7:17 amOther9 minEGPD-260
7:38 amOther10 minEGPD-260
9:10 amOther20 minEGPD-260
9:45 amOther12 minEGPD-260
10:15 amOther8 minEGPD-260
10:30 amSearch15 minEGPD-260
11:03 amOther8 minEGPD-260
11:15 amNot stated17 minEGPD-260
12:44 pmOther16 minEGPD-260
1:26 pmOther16 minEGPD-260
3:36 pmOther5 minEGPD-260
3:44 pmOther13 minEGPD-260
8:23 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
8:27 pmOther16 minEGPD-260
9:17 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
9:30 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
9:32 pmOther16 minEGPD-260
9:43 pmOther3 minEGPD-260
9:44 pmOther1 min 42 sEGPD-260
9:52 pmOther5 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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