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San Jose, California · one day

Friday 8 August 2025

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

10

drone flights over San Jose that day.

8:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:30 am.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Jose police drones flew 10 times on Friday 8 August 2025, the first at 8:45 am and the last at 11:30 am PDT, by Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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. Search90%
  2. Call for service10%

Flights, in order

10 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
8:45 amSearch4 minc22c7d23
8:53 amSearch2 mincc7d694c
8:57 amSearch16 min92722889
9:07 amCall for service18 min93a0c997
9:16 amSearch22 min6eefb763
9:44 amSearch25 minb42ac38a
10:21 amSearch3 min8f41760e
10:28 amSearch19 minb01c04cf
11:04 amSearch23 min88e33e84
11:30 amSearch18 minad2703db

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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