drone flights over San Jose that day.

6:43 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:00 pm.

22 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Jose police drones flew 13 times on Tuesday 28 April 2026, the first at 6:43 am and the last at 10:00 pm PDT, by Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service69%
Search31%

Flights, in order

13 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
6:43 am	Call for service	23 min	`89d9773b`
7:07 am	Call for service	22 min	`365bab13`
7:30 am	Call for service	25 min	`66d88ba1`
7:56 am	Call for service	24 min	`3ccb3843`
8:22 am	Call for service	25 min	`4eb7291a`
8:48 am	Call for service	24 min	`4c106bd9`
11:43 am	Call for service	23 min	`bb1f334f`
12:09 pm	Call for service	7 min	`c3577211`
7:20 pm	Call for service	9 min	`17a7ff22`
9:40 pm	Search	10 min	`0449b23c`
9:42 pm	Search	16 min	`e68ca42d`
9:55 pm	Search	16 min	`bcbf69ec`
10:00 pm	Search	12 min	`6051580a`

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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