Flock & ALPR Cameras in Espanola, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Espanola — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Espanola, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Espanola itself.
The rest sit in Española (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Espanola in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Espanola
The readers mapped around Espanola break down as 10 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Railroad Avenue — 3 readers
- Los Alamos Highway — 3 readers
- La Joya Street — 2 readers
- Fairview Lane — 1 reader
- North Paseo de Onate — 1 reader
- Lower San Pedro Drive — 1 reader
- Riverside Drive — 1 reader
Espanola NM PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Espanola NM PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 5 other agencies.
Espanola in the Rio Arriba County picture
Rio Arriba County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,383 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 40,165 residents and 11,056 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 94.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic, 1 street, 1 street,_facing_south. Operators named on the record: Flock (1).
Camera activity around Espanola, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Espanola. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Espanola
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 Espanola — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Espanola (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Espanola
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Espanola, NM
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Espanola, NM
What you can do in Espanola
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 Espanola
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).