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  4. September 2026
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 4 September 2026

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

23

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

6:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:04 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 23 times on Friday 4 September 2026, the first at 6:07 am and the last at 10:04 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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. Other78%
  2. Not stated22%

Flights, in order

23 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 amOther8 minEGPD-260
6:34 amOther4 minEGPD-260
6:36 amOther2 minEGPD-260
6:43 amOther12 minEGPD-260
7:44 amOther7 minEGPD-260
9:05 amOther16 minEGPD-260
9:33 amOther7 minEGPD-260
9:55 amOther8 minEGPD-260
10:14 amOther11 minEGPD-260
12:04 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
12:33 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
3:14 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
4:12 pmNot stated17 minEGPD-260
4:32 pmOther19 minEGPD-260
4:55 pmOther18 minEGPD-260
5:13 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
5:21 pmOther19 minEGPD-260
5:48 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-260
5:56 pmNot stated20 minEGPD-260
7:15 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
7:20 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-260
7:34 pmOther13 minEGPD-260
10:04 pmNot stated23 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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