Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Ranchos de Taos — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ranchos de Taos, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ranchos de Taos itself.
The rest sit in Taos (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Ranchos de Taos in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 13, 21:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ranchos de Taos
The readers mapped around Ranchos de Taos break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Paseo del Pueblo Sur — 3 readers
- Paseo del Canon East — 1 reader
- Salazar Road — 1 reader
Ranchos de Taos in the Taos County picture
Taos County has 22 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #331 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.4% nationally. That’s across 34,516 residents and 4,001 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 58.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Ranchos de Taos
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 Ranchos de Taos — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ranchos de Taos (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Ranchos de Taos
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 Ranchos de Taos
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).