Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sandia Heights, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Sandia Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sandia Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sandia Heights itself.
The rest sit in Albuquerque (18).
15 of them name an operator in the record: Albuquerque Police Department (12), Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sandia Heights
The readers mapped around Sandia Heights break down as 13 Genetec, 5 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Albuquerque Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Wyoming Boulevard Northeast — 5 readers
- Comanche Road Northeast — 4 readers
- Candelaria Road Northeast — 3 readers
- Menaul Boulevard Northeast — 2 readers
- Juan Tabo Boulevard Northeast — 2 readers
- Menaul Boulevard Northeast (Frontage Road) — 1 reader
- Tramway Boulevard Northeast — 1 reader
- Parsifal Street Northeast — 1 reader
Sandia Heights in the Bernalillo County picture
Bernalillo County has 350 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #485 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.6% nationally. That’s across 674,357 residents and 3,505 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Albuquerque Police Department (12), Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Sandia Heights, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sandia Heights. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Sandia Heights
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 Sandia Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sandia Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sandia Heights
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Sandia Heights, NM
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sandia Heights, NM
What you can do in Sandia Heights
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 Sandia Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).