Lea County

County record. Includes every city and agency within Lea County.

5 Deployments on record
3 Agencies
3 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · 1 Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · none on record Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 3 Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record
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

Lea County Sheriff's Office

Lovington · 2 deployments · last documented Dec 2022 · on UnGovr: Lea County

ALPR Vendor: Jenoptik

The Lea County Sheriff's Office uses Jenoptik automated license plate reader trailers.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Jenoptik

Body-worn & dashcam

The Lea County Sheriff's Office began using body-worn cameras in 2016 and owned 70 BWCs as of July 2020.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): FacebookCarlsbad Current argus

Hobbs Police Department

Hobbs · 2 deployments · last documented Aug 2020 · on UnGovr: City of Hobbs

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Coreforce

The Hobbs Police Department purchased Coreforce (formerly Utility) body-worn cameras in 2016.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Las Cruces Sun NewsHobbs Police Department Facebook page

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Hobbs Police Department established the Emergency Action General Law Enforcement Intelligence Center (EAGLE IC ) in July 2014. The city's cameras feed into this center, and all multi-family developments are required to provide camera feeds to the center.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Security InfoWatchThe City VoiceCity of Hobbs

Lovington Police Department

Lovington · 1 deployment · last documented Jun 2020 · on UnGovr: City of Lovington

Body-worn & dashcam

The Lovington Police Department purchased 22 body-worn cameras in 2014.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): NewsWest 9Facebook

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026