Flock & ALPR Cameras in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 192 automated license plate readers in and around Albuquerque — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 6 new license plate readers just reported around Albuquerque, NM. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Albuquerque
Where the cameras are in Albuquerque
The readers mapped around Albuquerque break down as 75 Genetec, 54 Flock Safety, 43 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Albuquerque Police Department, Lowe's, Coronado Mall, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Central Avenue Southeast — 15 readers
- Central Avenue Northwest — 13 readers
- Central Avenue Northeast — 13 readers
- Coronado Mall Northeast — 10 readers
- Central Avenue Southwest — 10 readers
- Albuquerque — 9 readers
- Coronado Freeway — 9 readers
- Coronado Mall Loop Northeast — 6 readers
- Pennsylvania Street Northeast — 5 readers
- Louisiana Boulevard Northeast — 5 readers
- Winrock Loop Northeast — 5 readers
- Coors Boulevard Southwest — 4 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Albuquerque — all on the live map above.
Albuquerque in the Bernalillo County picture
Bernalillo County has 350 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #485 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.6% nationally. That’s across 674,357 residents and 3,505 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 138 traffic, 2 parking. Operators named on the record: Albuquerque Police Department (57), Lowe's (2), Coronado Mall (1).
Camera activity around Albuquerque, last 30 days
11 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Albuquerque. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Albuquerque
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Albuquerque — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Albuquerque (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Albuquerque
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Albuquerque, NM
- Man arrested with truck full of Flock cameras in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Man arrested with truck full of Flock cameras in Albuquerque
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Albuquerque, NM
What you can do in Albuquerque
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Albuquerque
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).