Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hatch, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Hatch — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hatch
The readers mapped around Hatch break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Customs and Border Protection. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Pan American Highway — 4 readers
- East Hall Street — 1 reader
- New Mexico State Road 26 — 1 reader
Hatch in the Doña Ana County picture
Doña Ana County has 84 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #792 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 221,665 residents and 5,580 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Customs and Border Protection (1).
Camera activity around Hatch, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hatch. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Hatch
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 Hatch — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hatch (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hatch
What you can do in Hatch
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 Hatch
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).