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  4. October 2026
  5. 17

Elk Grove, California · one day

Saturday 17 October 2026

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

17

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

10:42 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:10 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 17 times on Saturday 17 October 2026, the first at 10:42 am and the last at 11:10 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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. Other88%
  2. Not stated12%

Flights, in order

17 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
10:42 amOther14 minEGPD-261
1:14 pmOther13 minEGPD-261
2:12 pmOther10 minEGPD-261
2:17 pmOther5 minEGPD-261
2:39 pmOther7 minEGPD-261
3:47 pmOther12 minEGPD-261
4:00 pmOther13 minEGPD-261
5:12 pmOther7 minEGPD-261
5:28 pmOther10 minEGPD-261
5:56 pmOther5 minEGPD-261
6:29 pmOther8 minEGPD-261
6:32 pmNot stated12 minEGPD-261
6:41 pmNot stated15 minEGPD-261
7:24 pmOther10 minEGPD-261
10:11 pmOther10 minEGPD-261
10:50 pmOther13 minEGPD-261
11:10 pmOther9 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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