Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rio Communities, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Rio Communities — 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 Rio Communities, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rio Communities itself.
The rest sit in Belen (3).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Rio Communities in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:07 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Rio Communities
The readers mapped around Rio Communities break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East River Road — 3 readers
- Highway 47 — 1 reader
- NM 47 — 1 reader
Rio Communities in the Valencia County picture
Valencia County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,196 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 77,382 residents and 1,433 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 37.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Rio Communities, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Rio Communities. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Rio Communities
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 Rio Communities — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rio Communities (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rio Communities
What you can do in Rio Communities
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 Rio Communities
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).