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San Rafael, California · one day

Thursday 19 March 2026

8 drone flights from San Rafael Police Department's published record.

8

drone flights over San Rafael that day.

12:52 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:17 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Rafael police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 19 March 2026, the first at 12:52 am and the last at 3:17 pm PDT, by San Rafael Police Department's published record.

8 drawable flights of 8. 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. Other88%
  2. Call for service12%

Flights, in order

8 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
12:52 amOther11 minSRPD-260
1:06 amOther8 minSRPD-260
1:44 amCall for service18 minSRPD-260
4:02 amOther16 minSRPD-260
11:44 amOther7 minSRPD-260
1:42 pmOther11 minSRPD-260
2:50 pmOther4 minSRPD-260
3:17 pmOther8 minSRPD-260

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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