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  4. August 2026
  5. 8

San Francisco, California · one day

Saturday 8 August 2026

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

20

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 20 times on Saturday 8 August 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

20 flights with a published block-level point of 20. 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 service85%
  2. Other15%

Flights, in order

20 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
—Call for service7 min01b441de
—Other1 min 00 s02e6a7c7
—Call for service17 min05c3e441
—Other8 min15fd313f
—Call for service4 min1863affb
—Call for service4 min1daa57b3
—Other2 min29e31b6a
—Call for service14 min2de82cee
—Call for service5 min440e4ab4
—Call for service5 min478bd954
—Call for service12 min4e02d45a
—Call for service22 min5b6505c8
—Call for service7 min70f1ee60
—Call for service20 min74c3b65c
—Call for service9 min7e97012c
—Call for service20 min97fc622d
—Call for service13 min9c631674
—Call for service6 mina9ee1f26
—Call for service16 mine4b2dfc0
—Call for service9 mined397812

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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