Sandoval County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Sandoval 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
Rio Rancho Police Department
The Rio Rancho Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Rio Rancho Police DepartmentKOATRio Rancho PD's Facebook page
The Rio Rancho Police Department began a three-year trial of Clearview AI face recognition software in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOB
The Rio Rancho Police Department operates one DJI Inspire 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.krqe.com
The Rio Rancho Police Department obtained automated license plate readers in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOAT
The Rio Rancho Police Department started a registry of surveillance cameras voluntarily submitted by local residents and businesses in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KRQERio Rancho Police
Sandoval County Sheriff's Office
Tthe Sandoval County Sheriff's Office has been using body-worn cameras since at least 2010.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Albuquerque JournalFacebook
Rio Rancho Public Schools
Rio Rancho Public Schools indicated that it was seeking $1.5 million from the state for gunshot detection in the district's 10 elementaries and four middle schools and that it had funds to install the system in two high schools. The district reported that the project for the two high schools was completed in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Albuquerque JournalRio Rancho Public Schools
Jemez Pueblo Police Department
The Jemez Pueblo Police Department began using Axon body-worn cameras in 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pueblo of Jemez WebsiteAxon
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026