Bernalillo County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Bernalillo County.
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
Albuquerque Police Department
The Albuquerque Police Department, in 2025, became the first police department in New Mexico to launch a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program.
The Albuquerque Police Department uses automatic license plate readers. The agency has an inventory of 70 to 80 ALPRs as of December 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Albuquerque Police Department SOPKOAT Action NewsAlbuquerque Journal
The Albuquerque Police Department uses Axon Body 4 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Albuquerque Police DepartmentAxon's Facebook pageAlbuquerque Police Department's Facebook page
The Albuquerque Police Department began a three-year trial of Clearview AI face recognition technology in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOB
The Albuquerque Police Department employs ShopSpotter gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The InterceptShotSpotter.com
The Albuquerque Police Department accepted a bid of $755,500.00 for "One (1) complete, high-power, multi-protocol international mobile subscriber identity (imsi) and international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) cellular handset identification and location system, collectively identified as a cell- site simulator (CSS) system." The agency has used cell-site simulators since 2012.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU New MexicoAlbuquerque Police DepartmentAlbuquerque Journal
The Albuquerque Police Department opened its real-time crime center in March 2011. This RTCC cost $800,000 and was paid through bonds and federal grants. The RTCC has 16 television screens, including a 90-inch monitor, and eight work stations. The center is staffed by four civilian crime analysts, two civilian video production workers, a video intelligence sergeant, a live operations sergeant, and a detective. As part of APD’s overall predictive policing strategy, the RTCC uses a combination of public and private cameras, a face recognition databases, and social media monitoring software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Police MagazineAlbuquerque JournalAlbuquerque Police Department
The Albuquerque Police department has been using face recognition technology since 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOAT
Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office
Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office launched a drone as first responder program in 2025.
The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office acquired cellphone-based body-worn cameras from Utility in early 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOB4BodyWorn Facebook page
The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Isleta Police Department
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $96,875 to the Isleta Police Department in 2018 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of JusticeU.S Department of JusticePueblo of Isleta Police Department Facebook Page
New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management operates two Silent Falcon drones as of 2019, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegeladailypost.com
New Mexico State Police
The New Mexico State Police Department operates one DJI Matrice 210 drone as of 2017, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.faa.govwww.dps.nm.gov
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026