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San Jose, California · one day

Monday 4 August 2025

4 drone flights from Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office's published record.

4

drone flights over San Jose that day.

4:18 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:49 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Jose police drones flew 4 times on Monday 4 August 2025, the first at 4:18 am and the last at 6:49 pm PDT, by Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office's published record.

4 drawable flights of 4. 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. Search75%
  2. Call for service25%

Flights, in order

4 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
4:18 amCall for service9 minbb79f98d
5:57 pmSearch23 mine67b98ba
6:22 pmSearch25 min98098925
6:49 pmSearch8 min83e6b35b

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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