Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hobbs, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 45 automated license plate readers in and around Hobbs — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hobbs, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 32 of them sit inside Hobbs itself.
The rest sit in North Hobbs (3).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
7 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hobbs
The readers mapped around Hobbs break down as 19 Flock Safety, 13 Axon Enterprise, 9 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Lovington Highway — 8 readers
- North Dal Paso Street — 5 readers
- West Carlsbad Highway — 4 readers
- North Turner Street — 4 readers
- East Marland Street — 3 readers
- Joe Harvey Boulevard — 3 readers
- East Navajo Drive — 3 readers
- Northwest County Road — 2 readers
- South Bypass — 2 readers
- South Dal Paso Street — 2 readers
- West Calle Sur — 1 reader
- West Marland Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Hobbs — all on the live map above.
Hobbs NM PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hobbs NM PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 14 other agencies.
Hobbs in the Lea County picture
Lea County has 48 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #310 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14.5% nationally. That’s across 73,154 residents and 8,846 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 58.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 37 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Hobbs, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hobbs. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Hobbs
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 Hobbs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hobbs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hobbs
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Hobbs, NM
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hobbs, NM
- 10 new license plate readers reported around Hobbs, NM
What you can do in Hobbs
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 Hobbs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).