Flock & ALPR Cameras in Las Cruces, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Las Cruces — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Las Cruces in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Las Cruces
The readers mapped around Las Cruces break down as 28 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Amador Avenue — 4 readers
- North Solano Drive — 3 readers
- North Main Street — 3 readers
- South Walnut Street — 3 readers
- Nacho Drive — 3 readers
- West Picacho Avenue — 3 readers
- East Picacho Avenue — 2 readers
- East Lohman Avenue — 2 readers
- North Triviz Drive — 1 reader
- Triviz Path — 1 reader
- North Roadrunner Parkway — 1 reader
- East Madrid Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Las Cruces — all on the live map above.
Las Cruces NM PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Las Cruces NM PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 1 other agencies.
Las Cruces 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 13 traffic, 1 entrance.
Camera activity around Las Cruces, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Las Cruces. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Las Cruces
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 Las Cruces — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Las Cruces (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Las Cruces
- Las Cruces adds privacy rules to Flock camera contract
- Las Cruces Police Department launches Flock camera transparency portal
- Las Cruces police roll out Flock transparency portal with ongoing camera use updates
- ¿Seguridad o vigilancia?; Las Cruces abre portal de transparencia sobre tecnología Flock tras dudas de la comunidad
What you can do in Las Cruces
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 Las Cruces
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).