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Elk Grove, California · one day

Saturday 3 October 2026

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

26

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

6:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:55 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 26 times on Saturday 3 October 2026, the first at 6:20 am and the last at 11:55 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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

26 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
6:20 amOther8 minEGPD-261
6:44 amOther19 minEGPD-261
7:16 amOther7 minEGPD-261
7:36 amOther7 minEGPD-261
8:10 amOther12 minEGPD-261
8:54 amOther20 minEGPD-261
9:03 amOther18 minEGPD-261
9:22 amOther7 minEGPD-261
9:50 amOther3 minEGPD-261
9:58 amOther10 minEGPD-261
11:52 amOther9 minEGPD-261
12:12 pmOther10 minEGPD-261
12:54 pmOther15 minEGPD-261
1:28 pmOther23 minEGPD-261
2:08 pmOther4 minEGPD-261
2:58 pmNot stated16 minEGPD-261
3:02 pmOther9 minEGPD-261
4:03 pmOther5 minEGPD-261
5:11 pmOther10 minEGPD-261
5:29 pmOther7 minEGPD-261
7:13 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-261
7:27 pmOther8 minEGPD-261
9:16 pmOther7 minEGPD-261
9:33 pmOther12 minEGPD-261
11:35 pmOther8 minEGPD-261
11:55 pmOther8 minEGPD-261

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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