Santa Fe County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Santa Fe 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
Santa Fe Police Department
The Santa Fe Police Department planned to implement a $350,000-one-year pilot program using SoundThinking's ShotSpotter technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KRQE
The Santa Fe Police Department has used body-worn cameras since 2014, but switched to Axon BWCs in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KRQE
Pueblo of Pojoaque Police Department
The Pueblo of Pojaque Police Department uses face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The International Academy of Trial JudgesThe Santa Fe New Mexican
The Pueblo of Pojoaque Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOAT Action 7 News
New Mexico State Police
The New Mexico State Police began a three-year trial of Clearview AI face recognition technology in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOB
Santa Fe Regional Emergency Communications Center
Santa Fe County purchased a Motorola service package in 2016 that included BriefCam. The software is managed by the Regional Emergency Communications Center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): BuzzfeedSanta Fe County
New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division
New Mexico’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) responds to face recognition requests from FBI’s FACE Services.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
Edgewood Police Department
The Town of Edgewood spent $7,510 on Coban-brand body-worn cameras in March 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): FacebookTown of Edgewood public meeting agenda
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026