Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Are there Flock cameras in Rio Rancho, New Mexico?
Rio Rancho is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Are there Flock cameras in Rio Rancho, New Mexico?
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Rio Rancho, New Mexico recorded for Rio Rancho Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 29 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 27 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agency
- Rio Rancho Police Department
- County
- Sandoval County
- Records on file
- 1
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 29
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 27
- Latest cited source
- 06/27/2018
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Rio Rancho Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Sandoval County
State
New Mexico (NM)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Rio Rancho Police Department obtained automated license plate readers in 2018.
Sources · record AOS007459
- KOAT ↗06/27/2018
What this record does not say
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Sources & records
Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Documented deployment records
- KOAT ↗Rio Rancho Police Department · 06/27/2018 · record AOS007459
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
29 mapped camera points inside the Rio Rancho boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Nearby documented deployments
Other New Mexico communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
- AlamogordoVerified Flock
- AlbuquerqueALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- BloomfieldVerified Flock
- CapitanVerified Flock
- CarlsbadALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- ClovisALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- DemingALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- FarmingtonVerified Flock
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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