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  4. January 2026
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Riverside County, California · one day

Thursday 22 January 2026

14 drone flights from Riverside County Sheriff's Office's published record.

14

drone flights over Riverside County that day.

4:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:44 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Riverside County police drones flew 14 times on Thursday 22 January 2026, the first at 4:31 am and the last at 4:44 pm PST, by Riverside County Sheriff's Office's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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, PST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

14 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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
4:31 amNot stated12 minRCSO-260
8:16 amNot stated14 minRCSO-260
10:24 amNot stated11 minRCSO-260
10:38 amNot stated20 minRCSO-260
11:01 amNot stated20 minRCSO-260
11:23 amNot stated22 minRCSO-260
12:21 pmNot stated20 minRCSO-260
12:44 pmNot stated17 minRCSO-260
1:03 pmNot stated24 minRCSO-260
1:31 pmNot stated22 minRCSO-260
1:56 pmNot stated19 minRCSO-260
2:17 pmNot stated21 minRCSO-260
4:14 pmNot stated27 minRCSO-260
4:44 pmNot stated35 minRCSO-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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