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  4. August 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Monday 31 August 2026

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

29

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 29 times on Monday 31 August 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

29 flights with a published block-level point of 29. 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 service97%
  2. Other3%

Flights, in order

29 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 service11 min02c1040c
—Call for service5 min0fcf265a
—Call for service5 min11dc1c83
—Call for service6 min1b031ad0
—Call for service10 min21811dc7
—Call for service5 min2557c791
—Other16 min2d518b8d
—Call for service13 min44c85eb9
—Call for service18 min4506c0fa
—Call for service7 min48c0cb41
—Call for service10 min4a432f77
—Call for service19 min5cd23cf2
—Call for service12 min646765ca
—Call for service5 min705bf7d0
—Call for service7 min96353b30
—Call for service17 minbbfb8c67
—Call for service10 minc2262544
—Call for service7 mincbac9288
—Call for service16 minced261c8
—Call for service5 mind0eebd4f
—Call for service15 mind177d800
—Call for service10 mind6eab443
—Call for service5 minda16ef91
—Call for service10 mine4011991
—Call for service13 mine4ae761a
—Call for service7 mined28ac67
—Call for service3 minf64f71be
—Call for service11 minf6b2ada1
—Call for service2 minfb726b5f

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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