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  4. October 2026
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 9 October 2026

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

23

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

6:16 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:41 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 23 times on Friday 9 October 2026, the first at 6:16 am and the last at 7:41 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. Other91%
  2. Not stated9%

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
6:16 amOther20 minEGPD-261
6:18 amOther3 minEGPD-261
6:25 amOther3 minEGPD-261
6:32 amNot stated4 minEGPD-261
6:47 amOther3 minEGPD-261
8:14 amOther4 minEGPD-261
8:16 amOther14 minEGPD-261
9:38 amOther1 min 24 sEGPD-261
9:39 amOther19 minEGPD-261
10:51 amOther6 minEGPD-261
11:36 amOther17 minEGPD-261
11:56 amNot stated23 minEGPD-261
12:29 pmOther13 minEGPD-261
1:10 pmOther16 minEGPD-261
1:51 pmOther6 minEGPD-261
3:12 pmOther9 minEGPD-261
3:39 pmOther7 minEGPD-261
3:55 pmOther8 minEGPD-261
4:34 pmOther12 minEGPD-261
5:19 pmOther15 minEGPD-261
6:58 pmOther5 minEGPD-261
7:01 pmOther5 minEGPD-261
7:41 pmOther12 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, 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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