Doña Ana County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Doña Ana 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
Las Cruces Police Department
The Las Cruces Police Department has used drones since at least 2019 and launched a drone as first responder program in 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Las Cruces Sun-NewsLas Cruces Police Department FacebookLas Cruces Police Department Facebook
The Las Cruces Police Department has installed 22 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
The Las Cruces Police Department received funding to create a real-time crime center in May 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KVIA
The Las Cruces Police Department paid Clearview AI $8,8761-year in 2023 for a one-year trial of it's face recognition software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOB
In 2015, the Las Cruces Police Department spent $320,000 on 72 Axon Flex cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Albuquerque Journal
Anthony Police Department
The Anthony Police Department uses Motorola V300 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Mexico Association of Chiefs of PoliceAnthony Police Department Facebook
New Mexico State University Police Department
The New Mexico State University Police Department operates one drone as of 2018, 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.gov
Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office
The Doña Ana County Budget for 2018 included $25,022 for body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Doña Ana County Government Center Final Budget
Sunland Park Police Department
The Sunland Park City Council approved the purchase of 25 body-worn cameras for the police department for $23,425, with plans to seek reimbursement from the New Mexico Municipal League.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KFOX14
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026