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San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 17 April 2026

14 drone flights from San Francisco Police Department's published record.

14

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 14 times on Friday 17 April 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

14 flights with a published block-level point of 14. The record gives no path.
One flight, at its published block

Hour by hour

Times not published in this record.

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service64%
  2. Other36%

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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Other1 min 00 s0942a4c7
—Call for service7 min29a0205b
—Other2 min2fd10083
—Other6 min58490f78
—Call for service7 min6246b02c
—Other9 min86cfec59
—Call for service17 minb7aae582
—Other2 minbb386987
—Call for service18 mince5544b3
—Call for service11 mindb560f48
—Call for service22 mindef7054d
—Call for service16 mine2a34841
—Call for service6 mine9447e4d
—Call for service4 mined6de283

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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