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  4. August 2026
  5. 12

Laurel, Maryland · one day

Wednesday 12 August 2026

14 drone flights from Laurel Police Department's published record.

14

drone flights over Laurel that day.

8:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:39 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Laurel police drones flew 14 times on Wednesday 12 August 2026, the first at 8:45 am and the last at 9:39 pm EDT, by Laurel Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service93%
  2. Not stated7%

Flights, in order

14 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 (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:45 amCall for service20 min45576d6a
10:30 amCall for service11 min2f7c07b1
11:40 amNot stated10 min23f3a072
1:07 pmCall for service10 mina1a8d712
1:32 pmCall for service9 min6dd280f7
3:22 pmCall for service21 min39f96570
3:44 pmCall for service19 minffa5cb6b
4:13 pmCall for service14 min01e61d26
4:52 pmCall for service17 minc6e93f69
6:48 pmCall for service17 min8926c793
8:02 pmCall for service8 min2193b259
8:25 pmCall for service9 mina81087b6
8:41 pmCall for service12 min2f467592
9:39 pmCall for service15 min8d82145c

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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