Surveillance procurement
4 documents on file, spanning 2020. The chain below starts with the original agreement; each document beneath it shows what it changed.
“Cameras contracted” counts what the documents on file bought. The police department’s Flock transparency portal gives its own current count (“Number of LPR cameras only.”), read by this project on 2026-09-28 — see the portal, its sharing list and the fact-check.
What the governing body was told before it voted, what it actually enacted, and what was signed — term by term. Click any value to read the passage it came from. A row marked silent is not a disagreement: it means only some of the three sources address that term at all, which is a different criticism and sometimes a fairer one.
| Term | Staff report | Enactment | Contract | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data retention | — | Agree | ||
| Addresses data sharing | — | Agree | ||
| Addresses federal access | — | Agree | ||
| Plate readers | — | — | Silent | |
| Total cost | — | — | Silent | |
| Renews automatically | — | — | Silent | |
| Sharing with others | — | — | Silent |
No source addresses: annual cost, term. Neither the briefing, the enactment nor the agreement puts these on the record.
Not on file: staff report, enactment. No ordinance or resolution authorising this contract has been located, so what the governing body approved cannot be compared against what was signed. That is a statement about the record we hold, not a finding that no vote occurred.
| Term | Staff report | Enactment | Contract | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data retention | — | — | Silent | |
| Total cost | — | — | Silent | |
| Annual cost | — | — | Silent | |
| Renews automatically | — | — | Silent |
No source addresses: plate readers, term, addresses data sharing, sharing with others, addresses federal access. Neither the briefing, the enactment nor the agreement puts these on the record.
Not on file: staff report, enactment. No ordinance or resolution authorising this contract has been located, so what the governing body approved cannot be compared against what was signed. That is a statement about the record we hold, not a finding that no vote occurred.
| Term | Staff report | Enactment | Contract | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addresses data sharing | — | — | Silent |
No source addresses: data retention, plate readers, total cost, annual cost, term, renews automatically, sharing with others, addresses federal access. Neither the briefing, the enactment nor the agreement puts these on the record.
Grant: FFY21 High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Modification 2 — Office of National Drug Control Policy (G20SN0006A)
5 systems named in this jurisdiction’s procurement documents, 2 of which are documented as integrating with FlockOS. Plate readers are one layer; what a camera network is worth to an agency depends on what it is plugged into.
“-$ - - Police Department Equipment - Axon Body Cameras Police Department -$ 350,000.00$”the document
“Econolite-Centracs Priority Software | GRT Street Maintenance | 154,000.00 | - | 154,000.00 | Taxes/Dona Ana County (capital projects table, page 363 of the 730-page City Council agenda packet for 16 January 2024)”the document
“Flock Safety + NM - Las Cruces PD ______________ Flock Group Inc. 1170 Howell Mill Rd, Suite 210 A”the document
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“days prior to the end of the then-current term. Special Terms: • Custom Subscription: Peregrine integration Docusign Envelope ID: 98495806-59D5-46C4-830C-31F9B8DF73B7 Billing Schedule”the document
These are the systems named in the procurement documents we hold. A system listed here was written down in a document this jurisdiction published; that is not the same as a finding that the jurisdiction operates it, and a system missing from this list may simply have been bought under an item we have not read.
Hardware a records officer listed as attached to the traffic and light poles at a named intersection. This is a different question from what the council approved, and it has a different answer.
| Function | Make | Model | What it captures |
|---|---|---|---|
| CCTV | Hanwha | Wisenet | identifies A network video camera, formerly the Samsung Techwin line. It records imagery in which people and vehicles are identifiable. What that footage is retained for, who may view it, and whether it is reachable from any real-time crime centre are not answered by this disclosure. |
| Traffic Data Collection | TrafficCast | BlueTOAD | identifies Reads the Bluetooth hardware address (MAC) broadcast by phones and car systems as they pass, and matches it against a reading at another BlueTOAD to compute travel time. The address is persistent and tied to a device, so the same phone is recognisable each time it passes. Sold and bought as traffic-engineering equipment, which is why it appears in no policing contract in this archive. |
| Illuminated Sign | Temple | — | identifies nobody An illuminated street-name sign. Identifies nobody. |
| Pedestrian Push Button | Polara Engineering | PPB | identifies nobody An accessible pedestrian push button. Identifies nobody, and is on this list only because the inventory is kept whole. |
| Preemption | Opticom | 97x LED Emitter | identifies nobody Signal preemption for emergency vehicles. Worth noting how this is listed: the 97x is the EMITTER, which is mounted on a fire engine or ambulance rather than on a pole. The pole carries the detector that watches for it. Either the list names the system by its vehicle component, or the answer is looser than it looks — a small thing, and the kind of thing that matters when a list like this is the only account of what is up there. |
| Radar Detection | Econolite | Accuscan | identifies nobody A second radar detection unit on the same poles, alongside the EVO. |
| Radar Detection | Econolite | EVO | identifies nobody Radar that senses whether a vehicle is present at the intersection. It measures presence and speed, not identity. |
| Signal Indication | Econolite | GE | identifies nobody The signal heads themselves — the red, amber and green lamps. Identifies nobody. |
| Video Detection | Autoscope | Vision | identifies nobody A camera used to detect whether a vehicle is waiting at the stop bar so the signal can respond. As deployed for signal actuation it counts presence rather than identity — but it is a camera, and what a camera is pointed at can be changed without buying anything new. |
Source: IPRA to City of Las Cruces, received 24 July 2026 — hardware attached to the traffic control and light poles at Telshore & Lohman, make and model
This is what a records officer listed as attached to the poles at one intersection, on one date. It is not a complete account of the city's equipment, and an intersection absent from here is one nobody has asked about yet. The list is kept whole, including the devices that identify nobody: showing only the watching parts of a pole would not be showing the pole.
spoke at a meeting wrote, disclosed under records law
19 passages where this was raised, from 9 named speakers — 9 from members of the public, between 2024-04-22 and 2026-07-06.
Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number.
Derrick PachecoMember of the Publicpublic commentWe had some wonderful civil discourse regarding Flock and ALPRs in general.
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Derrick Pacheco, Member of the Public said I want to thank Chief Story for joining me on the radio this past week. We had some wonderful civil discourse regarding Flock and ALPRs in general. I really respect that someone took some time, genuine time out of a super busy schedule unlike some of my elected officials here that refuse to meet with me. I feel like I am on a list that people just don’t want to talk to me, don’t want to meet with me. Whatever the case may be. I don’t know why I am on a list. But I definitely am. My father poured the concrete that built I-10 here. My parents both worked at White Sands Missile Range. My cousin is a sitting Judge on the Third Circuit, my other cousin is retired LCPD, my other cousin retired from the third floor here. The list goes on. I am from Las Cruces. You treat me like I am not part of this community, and I am sick and tired of it. We need to build trust. There is no trust here. Trust is eroded with you people. The county included. I am going to say this at the county if I am allowed but I don’t even know if I am trespassed or not. It is whacky over there too but regardless the Fentanyl that hit the streets that the Governor and the Mayor and everyone else is saying, oh it was the DEAs fault. You can’t have that situation without having local knowledge. I ran into a situation here where I had a short-term rental invaded by some yucky people. I was pretty certain that they were working as informants after talking to another co-host down the street that I never met before she said the same thing. Her sister is on the street, and she mentioned that the word on the street is that the Fentanyl is being let onto the street to find bigger fish. I had this discussion months ago, maybe 8 months ago now if not longer so I don’t buy this rhetoric. The other rhetoric I don’t buy is our elected officials such as Senator Bill Soules showing up at the park now on our side, the people’s side. That is disingenuous. His wife graduated from this dais and now is working for the Boys and Girls Club which got a huge novelty oversized check from Project Jupiter and now Bill Soules is out there saying oh no, dang these people. We can’t have this. This is horrible behavior, yet in secret meetings that were cancelled on the agenda at the county, but happen anyway with the Boys and Girls Club with this big giant check from Project Jupiter. That does not build trust. I demand we speak about a data center moratorium. We do not need that junk up at the Mesa technology park, the Industrial Park, whatever you guys call it. The Data Center Park I am sure is what you want to rebrand it as. We need real discussions here. I am sick and tired of being treated like this and so is everyone behind me.
Sierra AlminsterMember of the Publicpublic commentWhen I look up the type of funding that the police department receives, when I hear numbers like 1,750,000/1,964,000 or specifically 450,000 secured by Heinrich for camera trailers, drones, automatic license plate readers, auto activated car and body cameras.
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Sierra Alminster, Member of the Public said I would like to echo the disappointment. I know everyone is disappointed in seeing these cuts to quality of life and ya again I would also like to echo the fact that it is just disappointing that if you look at the police budget, the funds that are going to the police, the GRT money that is going to the police I feel like it doesn’t reflect the economic situation that we are in right now but if you look at any other area in life in Las Cruces it very clearly reflects the economic crisis we are in right now. I have heard it brought up you know, this was brought up in the public comments that we are calling the police the root cause. I am not calling the police the root cause I am saying that we should be funding to fix the root causes of crime and unsafe communities which is not having quality of life for the community members. When I look up the type of funding that the police department receives, when I hear numbers like 1,750,000/1,964,000 or specifically 450,000 secured by Heinrich for camera trailers, drones, automatic license plate readers, auto activated car and body cameras. I find it hard to believe the sob story of why the police need such a huge portion of our GRT money. This feels a lot like the GRT meeting of trying to figure out where to put these tiny amounts of money, making cuts here for that and again just the aspect of that we are not saying, we are saying to fund the community and it is really tragic to not see that reflected of all aspects, of all departments and that the community are the ones that are having to take the biggest hit for this.
Juan GarciaMember of the Publicpublic commentLicense plate readers, LPRs specifically has been a hot topic recently. These cameras capture and read license plates enabling law enforcement to quickly search for vehicles that are stolen. LPR technology also integrates with Amber or Silver Alerts alerting law enforcement in real time when a vehicle associated with an alert passes a camera.
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Juan Garcia, Member of the Public said this Op Ed was in the Las Cruces Sun Sunday, yesterday, it was written by Chief Story and I think it is worth sharing. “Technology has rapidly evolved in the past 19 years of my policing career. As technology has advanced, law enforcement is leveraging new tools to keep communities safe. Criminals are very effective at using technology to victimize people and defeat our efforts to catch and prosecute them. Police departments must keep pace. License plate readers, LPRs specifically has been a hot topic recently. These cameras capture and read license plates enabling law enforcement to quickly search for vehicles that are stolen. Linked to human trafficking or involved in other criminal activity. LPR technology also integrates with Amber or Silver Alerts alerting law enforcement in real time when a vehicle associated with an alert passes a camera. In Las Cruces we have used this technology to help solve everything from homicides to victims to missing person cases. Our ability to locate and recover stolen vehicles has improved significantly since we implemented LPRs in 2021. Just recently the first clue of an attempted kidnapping on NMSUs campus came from an LPR. Because of this technology the NMSU Police Department arrested the suspect the following day. While LPRs do not provide continuous tracking to identify who is behind the wheel they are one of the few tools available that can quickly surface actionable vehicle information in the moments it is needed most. This tool is just one piece of the puzzle, but it is a critical one. Guard rails are important, exist in both department policy and state law but the value of LPRs far outweighs reasonable privacy concerns. LPRs allow law enforcement to obtain justice for victims and in some cases prevent them from becoming victims in the first place”. And now some political hypocrisy when residents push back against Realize Las Cruces, a few council members openly mocked their worries about neighborhood safety tossing around, “not in my backyard”, City Council Meeting April 20, 2026 like an insult. Now fast forward to last month, CBP announces it might open a new station in Las Cruces and suddenly on April 3rd Councilor Corran tells the journal you will never hear me say not in my backyard ever except today.
Derrick PachecoMember of the Publicpublic commentDerrick Pacheco, Member of the Public said I wanted the additional minute to start this meeting by thanking and showing some love. I would like to start things a little different and start with some love, but I am going to need everyone’s undivided attention. Chief, thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. You have always been very approachable, very respectful and a welcome change from Chief Dominguez.…
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Derrick Pacheco, Member of the Public said I wanted the additional minute to start this meeting by thanking and showing some love. I would like to start things a little different and start with some love, but I am going to need everyone’s undivided attention. Chief, thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. You have always been very approachable, very respectful and a welcome change from Chief Dominguez. Mr. Daniels, I understand that fires are out of control in this county, thank you for your service and your team. I know it is a thankless job. Mr. Sedillo, thank you for your continued service. Ms. Delgado, thank you. Ms. McClure, I didn’t realize that you were such an accomplished author. Thank you for bringing your talents to this city. Mr. Mattiace, for your continued service as a business leader and a thoughtful pragmatic thinker on the bench. Mr. Harris, I can’t thank you enough for your presence on the bench. Your demeanor is much welcome. Your attention to detail and the way that you respectfully with all your body pay attention to constituents is noted. Mr. Munoz, glad to have you. Thank you for taking diligent notes. I noticed that. Mr. Enriquez, thank you for your prior service on the fire team here and I appreciate you as Mayor. Ikani, I can’t say your name as well as everyone else’s yet, but I am working on it. Thank you for sticking around, coming in from Utah while others bounced around and you stuck around I appreciate that. Mr. Douglas thank you for your work. Ms. Rivera, thank you today for giving me extra attention. With that being said this city and this county is in shambles, and it is really heartbreaking. We have a great divide here from the county to the city to the constituents. I feel so blessed to be amongst my peers that are so very smart and very caring and they show up time and time to voice their concerns with their heart on their chest knowing very well that they could be doxed or otherwise pointed at when they are the grocery store or giggled at by the ladies in the back row. In regard to the county being divided by the city and vice versa Project Jupiter comes to mind real quick. I don’t think once we have heard any testimony regarding water restrictions here in the city. We are not allowed to water on Mondays. We are only allowed to water our tomato gardens every other day yet we bring in major projects without consulting the other team. We are all working in City Council Meeting February 17, 2026 silos and vacuums and not together and I think that if we work together and took a more humanistic approach to things we would figure this out in a heartbeat, in an LA minute. Most of our problems locally would be fixed. It really would. Very disappointing that my Councilor McClure told me that she isn’t allowed to bring forth resolutions for discussion or for consideration. That is just untrue. That was you not wanting to bring forth a resolution. That was you not wanting to
MunozCouncilorCouncilor Munoz said page 3, the Quality of Life increase to senior meals program, totally agree that is important and we have to take care of our seniors as they took care of us when we were younger. That is an adjustment, is that because of cuts somewhere, federal or state funding or was that a change to the forecast? Carol Brey, Quality of Life Director said yes, essentially that is one of the reasons we ar…
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Councilor Munoz said page 3, the Quality of Life increase to senior meals program, totally agree that is important and we have to take care of our seniors as they took care of us when we were younger. That is an adjustment, is that because of cuts somewhere, federal or state funding or was that a change to the forecast? Carol Brey, Quality of Life Director said yes, essentially that is one of the reasons we are asking for this increase. We did see a decrease to the NSIP, Nutrition Services Incentive Program this year. I believe it was about $123,465 decrease in that and so that is part of this is going to be a total of $165,000 that we will need over two quarters. We are asking for $82,500 this quarter and we will ask for the remainder next quarter most likely and then also increases in attendance of meals as well as increase in food costs, which I believe we are all experiencing. City Councilor John Munoz moved, seconded by City Councilor Michael Harris, City Council Meeting February 17, 2026 to Approve Resolution No. 26-103. RESULT: Carried MOVER: City Councilor John Munoz SECONDER: City Councilor Michael Harris AYES: Mayor Eric Enriquez, City Councilor Cassie McClure, City Councilor William Mattiace, City Councilor Michael Harris, and City Councilor John Munoz ABSENT: City Councilor Johana Bencomo and City Councilor Becky Corran 7.3 COUNCIL BILL NO. 26-016; ORDINANCE NO. 3108: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE IV, DIVISION 3, SUBDIVISION XIV. VETERANS ADVISORY BOARD OF THE LAS CRUCES MUNICIPAL CODE (LCMC) REGARDING MEMBERSHIP. Christine Rivera, City Clerk gave the overhead presentation. City Councilor John Munoz moved, seconded by City Councilor Michael Harris, to Approve Ordinance No. 3108. RESULT: Carried MOVER: City Councilor John Munoz SECONDER: City Councilor Michael Harris AYES: Mayor Eric Enriquez, City Councilor Cassie McClure, City Councilor Michael Harris, and City Councilor John Munoz ABSENT: City Councilor William Mattiace, City Councilor Johana Bencomo, and City Councilor Becky Corran 8. BOARD APPOINTMENTS 8.1 JACOB KIDD City Councilor John Munoz moved, seconded by City Councilor Michael Harris, to appoint Jacob Kidd to the CIAC. RESULT: Carried MOVER: City Councilor John Munoz SECONDER: City Councilor Michael Harris AYES: Mayor Eric Enriquez, City Councilor Cassie McClure, City Councilor William Mattiace, City Councilor Michael Harris, and City Councilor John Munoz ABSENT: City Councilor Johana Bencomo and City Councilor Becky Corran 9. NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE(S) 1) There will be no public discussion. 2) A Councilor may ask staff for clarification on the proposed ordinance(s). 9.1 None. 10. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER BOARD REPORTS AND COMMENT 10.1 COUNCILOR MCCLURE I am wondering coming out of the conversation today if we should talk a little bit more, this is more towards City Manager about strategy, and I don’t think the public does have an awa
That experience is why I'm deeply concerned watching cities outsource suspicion to AI systems, especially through unethical companies like Flock Safety and their unsecured devices, devices that are all over this town. In Aurora, Colorado, an automated license plate reader system falsely flagged a vehicle as stolen. Flock calls this safety. Their own patent calls it a dynamic surveillance network.
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still made catastrophic mistakes. Not because we were reckless, but because we trusted data that looked conclusive. That experience is why I'm deeply concerned watching cities outsource suspicion to AI systems, especially through unethical companies like Flock Safety and their unsecured devices, devices that are all over this town. Because when a tool exists that makes judgment feel easier, it will be used. And human discretion quietly atrophies. In Aurora, Colorado, an automated license plate reader system falsely flagged a vehicle as stolen. A family was forced face [snorts] down on hot pavement at gunpoint. children crying, parents cuffed. That mistake ended in a $ 1.9 million settlement. In that moment, the error rate of the system didn't matter, which is about 10% by the way. The database did. Felony stops are dangerous affairs and easy to imagine one turning deadly and sudden movement or misunderstanding causing that to happen. Flock calls this safety. That's their branding. Their own patent calls it a dynamic surveillance network. It's not safety, it's surveillance. It's suspicion, not safety. The Supreme Court has been clear in Carpenter versus United States. The courts ruled that people do not lose their expectation of privacy simply by moving through public space. Long-term tracking of a person's movements requires a warrant. Flock creates as a much more intrusive record, much more intrusive record without judicial oversight. This is why deactivation is not enough. These systems collect, retain, and shared data. As long as the cameras remain, the infrastructure remains, and so does the
It's AI outsourced suspicion, selfcensorship for a watch citizenry, and a system that would make Orwell roll over in his grave and ask, "Did you even read the book?" I urge you to remove all Flock ALPR cameras and cancel the contract with Flock Safety.
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It's not safety. It's AI outsourced suspicion, selfcensorship for a watch citizenry, and a system that would make Orwell roll over in his grave and ask, "Did you even read the book?" I urge you to remove all Flock ALPR cameras and cancel the contract with Flock Safety. Thank you. Mayor, council folks here today and those watching online. I'm Lynn Moore. Today we delve further into the city's non-compliance with the lead and copper rule. In addition to citing inspection reports and inventory records to
I understand that on May 6, 2024, the council voted unanimously to contract with a company called Flock Safety for license plate readers. And now I see and hear that this is going much further beyond surveillance. uh flock safety according to the ACLU website is passing this surveillance data on to ICE. They are selling their cameras to police departments and private customers across
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continued mentorship to the community and your continued service. Thank you. Mayor and council. My name is Lucy Silva. I understand that on May 6, 2024, the council voted unanimously to contract with a company called Flock Safety for license plate readers. It was my understanding at the time that these readers were to collect information regarding speeders and red light runners. And now I see and hear that this is going much further beyond surveillance. uh flock safety according to the ACLU website is passing this surveillance data on to ICE. They are selling their cameras to police departments and private customers across
Flock is now expanding the power of the system itself. I urge the council to please delete this contract and remove the cameras from the Los Cru's community to keep our community safe. I'm also speaking about flock cameras and I want the city to cancel the contract.
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They have also, according to the ACLU website, revealed that a police officer in Texas used the systems to search nationwide for a woman who'd had an abortion illegal in their state. Flock is now expanding the power of the system itself. I urge the council to please delete this contract and remove the cameras from the Los Cru's community to keep our community safe. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council. My name is Fred Miller. I'm also speaking about flock cameras and I want the city to cancel the contract. But beyond that, I hope that legal will look into actually getting rid of the cameras, making sure that the flock safety company does not just move them from public property to private property. We need to limit their access even if they move them onto private property. Please look into that. Thank you. Councilors, mayor, my name is Donna
Um I have two things specifically and the first one is that I also share a concern about flock, but I think that we're not thinking um wider even than that.
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bring forward next is city council member board reports and comments. Council Mccclure. Thank you, Mayor. Um I have two things specifically and the first one is that I also share a concern about flock, but I think that we're not thinking um wider even than that. Um, I went to Mvita's AI conference and I thought about cyber security in different ways that are going to be impacting us just dynamically for whatever we do. Um, I was a young in in
So I guess I will I would also welcome further conversation on cyber security and data privacy practices um and the implications of programs that we are doing in the city uh flock potentially other things um as anyone who's been been paying attention to what I say can probably know that's that's a big thing for me cyber is my my passion and my industry and so I would I would welcome those conversations and I think they're very important uh Um,
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council Harris. Uh, thanks. So I guess I will I would also welcome further conversation on cyber security and data privacy practices um and the implications of programs that we are doing in the city uh flock potentially other things um as anyone who's been been paying attention to what I say can probably know that's that's a big thing for me cyber is my my passion and my industry and so I would I would welcome those conversations and I think they're very important uh Um,
I I also agree that I would love for us to have a conversation about flock slash I don't I think flock just gets the publicity but I do think that the surveillance data is not as secure as we would all hope for our data to be in any situation.
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And so just a huge shout out to our staff who has led on a lot of those efforts. Thanks, Mayor. Thanks, Councelor Karin. Thank you. I I also agree that I would love for us to have a conversation about flock slash I don't I think flock just gets the publicity but I do think that the surveillance data is not as secure as we would all hope for our data to be in any situation. So um I support my colleagues and that mention that as as a priority to continue to follow up on. uh
And I mention that because we talk about flock, we talk about technology, we talk about AI. And not too far from us, uh we have one of the uh state-of-the-art uh facilities being built and that's in Huarees, Mexico, uh for their real-time crime center.
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that together. Um as we started out today, we uh had a presentation by Sister Cities and uh I always say that's a a great way to learn not only here locally or in the country but throughout the world. And I mention that because we talk about flock, we talk about technology, we talk about AI. And not too far from us, uh we have one of the uh state-of-the-art uh facilities being built and that's in Huarees, Mexico, uh for their real-time crime center. And it's a it's a
Liz BennettMember of the Publicpublic commentThe militarization of civilian life and the criminalization of the human struggle creeps into our city through the targeting of black and brown communities, the criminalization of poverty, the use of lethal force in response to mental health crisis and the use of mass surveillance technology like the unsecured AI powered Flock cameras currently placed throughout Las Cruces.
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Liz Bennett, Member of the Public said I want to start off the new year by welcoming the new city council members with an urgent reminder and plea as you face the work ahead of you to please carry with you the charge to invest in care not criminalization. The militarization of civilian life and the criminalization of the human struggle creeps into our city through the targeting of black and brown communities, the criminalization of poverty, the use of lethal force in response to mental health crisis and the use of mass surveillance technology like the unsecured AI powered Flock cameras currently placed throughout Las Cruces. I want to acknowledge that there are genuine concerns to respond to around community safety but how we respond matters. The effectiveness, of the strategies that we use matters. A take them out and lock them up approach is ineffective and in fact perpetuates the cycles of poverty, trauma and discrimination that breed violence in the first place. Historical and empirical data spell out the facts that investing in education and employment opportunities free accessible City Council Meeting January 5, 2026 public spaces and services, opportunities to connect with peers, diversion programs and common-sense gun control laws are the types of initiatives that truly prevent harm and promote community safety particularly among young people. On the contrary, incarceration often increases the likelihood of reoffending and recidivism. I have provided several research articles that go into further detail. It is right here in our own backyards among our elected officials and community advocates where we have the most power to act in accordance with our values in the face of the dangerous national and local trends to maximize state aggression. Las Cruces as a community has demonstrated our capacity to invest in each other’s wellbeing. It is a part of our identity that we must intentionally and purposefully hold on to. Please hold this at the forefront of discussions on how to invest the $11 million of additional annual GRT funds, keeping in mind that the community clearly voice their support for funding libraries, affordable housing, parks and trails, over the harmful and traumatizing expansion of carceral infrastructure.
Derrick PachecoMember of the Publicpublic commentI asked a sitting city councilor on the bench right here, “could we organize a community meeting regarding the nearly 100 Flock cameras coming to Cruces? We are actually touring RTCC tomorrow so I should have more info then”. I am here today to ask you to bring forward a resolution to cancel the city’s contract with Flock Safety.
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Derrick Pacheco, Member of the Public said I live at 640 South Mesquite, in the Historic Mesquite Neighborhood. My family has been on the block for over one hundred years. I am highly invested in what I am about to say right now to all of you. On Wednesday, September 10th at 9:28 a.m. I asked a sitting city councilor on the bench right here, “could we organize a community meeting regarding the nearly 100 Flock cameras coming to Cruces? I don’t feel good about it at all to be honest”. The response, “let me ask Story when there might be another town hall. We are actually touring RTCC tomorrow so I should have more info then”. That never happened. I am here today to ask you to bring forward a resolution to cancel the city’s contract with Flock Safety. Remove the cameras and require deletion of locally stored data that is not tied to a specific lawful investigation. Before I get into the reasons, I want to briefly explain what Flock actually is because many people hear the word camera and think it is just another traffic cam. Flock is not a normal camera. It is a license plate surveillance system that automatically photographs every vehicle that passes, records the time, location, vehicle type, color, bumper stickers and travel patterns and stores that info in a searchable database. A simple way to think about it especially for those of us who grew up before smartphones is this, imagine if in the 70’s or 80’s the city had stationed a police officer on every major road, writing down every license plate where you were and when you passed even though you had done nothing wrong and then kept those notebooks for months. That is what Flock does except it does it 24 hours a day automatically and at a scale that no human could ever do. Now let’s talk about why cities from across the country are walking away from Flock. In just the past year multiple cities have canceled or declined to renew their Flock contracts including Flagstaff, Arizona, Eugene, Oregon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, San Marcos, Texas. These cities have cited concerns about privacy, cost, outreach, and lack of measurable public safety benefits and those concerns turned out to be justified. Recent investigative reporting revealed that live video feeds and administrative panels from Flock cameras were exposed on the open internet meaning that strangers could watch real time surveillance footage and access stored data. Cities affected included Bakersfield, California and Brookhaven, Georgia.
ZackMember of the Publicpublic commentThe second major issue I would like to raise is the expansion of Flock license plate reader cameras. Flock shares information with over 2,000 law enforcement agencies and investigations by the ACLU and EFF around ICE are found that ICE accessed ALPR data from at least 30 jurisdictions, sometimes without the knowledge of the local departments providing the data.
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Zack, Member of the Public said I am in District 2 and I am here to address several interconnected issues that raise serious concerns about public trust, civil liberties and the exercise of police authority in our city. First, I want to highlight the recent decision by Police Chief Jeremy Story to use what amounts to Hobbs Act loophole to escalate a local arrest into a federal case. The Hobbs Act was enacted in 1946 to target City Council Meeting December 1, 2025 interstate robbery and extortion, not local disputes and its expanded use has been criticized across the political spectrum. A Brennan Center analysis and Subsequent GAO review found that the federal prosecution of traditionally local crimes increased more than 32% between 2001 and 2020, driven in part by overbroad interpretations of statutes like the Hobbs Act. This practice consistently underminds local oversight and research published through the National Institute of Justice shows that when local authorities bypass state systems public trust declines sharply particularly among communities already skeptical of law enforcement. This becomes even more troubling in the context of a broader pattern. Multiple incidents over the past few years have raised questions about Chief Story’s willingness to jump to immediate and radical conclusions such as when he put armed snipers on the roof for a peaceful protest. While an apology was issued for that it is still indicative of a pattern and when we look at these issues together the use of force against people, peaceful demonstrators followed by a decision to federalize a local situation through a Hobbs Act workaround we see not isolated decisions but a pattern of preferred aggressive escalation over democratic local and state level solutions. If there are gaps in local or state level state law the appropriate path is collaboration with legislature and transparent public debate not seeking harsher outcomes through federal channels that remove cases from community oversight. The second major issue I would like to raise is the expansion of Flock license plate reader cameras. The data here is consistent. Flock shares information with over 2,000 law enforcement agencies and investigations by the ACLU and EFF around ICE are found that ICE accessed ALPR data from at least 30 jurisdictions, sometimes without the knowledge of the local departments providing the data. Even if our city does not intend to share data with federal immigration enforcement once it enters regional or statrewide data bases access becomes very difficult to control. Claims that Flock cameras reduce crime are mixed at best. Independent studies including those from the Polling Center show no statistical reduction in violent crime associated with ALPR use and property crime solving improvements average only 2 to 7%, often fading after the first year. Meanwhile communities, the color are scanned disproportionately.
Jovanni HernandezMember of the Publicpublic commentWhat the city council has to say about things like automatic license plate readers, that ICE is getting access to all over the country and whether or not the police department will cave to the federal Trump Administration by signing a 287G Agreement like so many counties in New Mexico have done already?
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Jovanni Hernandez, Member of the Public said I am a resident of Las Cruces and I would like to share a few things. I live here in Las Cruces and I have lived here for quite some time and I have had many firsts here. I finished school here. I think I fell in love for the first time here, also had my first real heartbreak as many of us have had. I have hung out by the river when it is dry and when it is flowing. I have enjoyed many of our city facilities. Meerscheidt, the skate park, the Aquatic Center and also the libraries and that is really cool. I have had some of the best times I have ever had here in the city enjoying those facilities. In fact one of my favorite places that I kind of thought was kind of a sanctuary, a quiet place was the second story of the Branigan Memorial Library in what they call the Creators Room. There is like model ship in there, there is painting supplies, there is old maps and stuff like that, a whole bunch of really cool things and to be honest I didn’t really think that a whole bunch of people really knew about it. There I spent time doing work and homework with my partner, the love of my life where I got to see her in the beautiful light in in the afternoon that comes in window there that overlooks the park. On Friday last week I was there at that park protesting against racist, xenophobic, ICE, immigration and custom enforcement from the federal government, kidnapping people in our communities and I look over and I see a sniper. A man from Las Cruces Police Department with a riffle pointing at us. We seen them over there on the Fire Department roof also and that is not okay. Extremism by law enforcement against people of color, against organizers in this community is not something that I was really expecting. Some of these folks that came before me said it best the same kind of threat of violence and that is what this is was not replicated on Saturday at an organized protest with mostly white organizers, white leadership, white participants, a whole lot of snowbirds we know them all. Instead, it was directed at one where there was finger painting, there was a pinata and there was peaceful protest. Standards if we have them and if they are subject to change mean nothing. I want to know what the city council is going to be doing about that? What the city council has to say about that? What the city council has to say about things like automatic license plate readers, that ICE is getting access to all over the country and whether or not the police department will cave to the federal Trump Administration by signing a 287G Agreement like so many counties in New Mexico have done already?
Michael HarrisMember of the Publicpublic commentMichael Harris, Member of the Public said I thought I would bring up today a disturbing trend I have noticed around town of automated license plate reading cameras. Cameras that I have personally seen appear from a company called Flock, which is very famous in the space and maybe there are others that are less conspicuous. These cameras take photos of every car that passes day and night.
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Michael Harris, Member of the Public said I thought I would bring up today a disturbing trend I have noticed around town of automated license plate reading cameras. Both on private and on city right-of-ways. Cameras that I have personally seen appear from a company called Flock, which is very famous in the space and maybe there are others that are less conspicuous. There are at least 10 of these, Lohman, University, Missouri, and several at Lowe’s and Home Depot each. These cameras take photos of every car that passes day and night. They read the plate, they upload it to a national database which is owned and operated by this private company and there are no real meaningful legal restrictions on the use of that data once it is up there. All you really need to look through it is a contract with Flock. Recent leaks I have also revealed that Flock is building a people’s search tool so that these cameras that are ostensively put in place to read license plates and monitor cars are probably actually monitoring everybody’s faces as well. Maybe the data that is produced is useful to solve an occasional crime. I will add that just right before this meeting I actually heard a brief story about LCPD finding and returning some property to a friend of mine because of some private cameras that were at his place of work, so anyway it is possible. Given the coverage in this town, it seems doubtful that you can track stolen assets using these Flock cameras with any accuracy. So, it seems like mainly a way for an understaffed Police Department to appear to be doing something. Maybe wasting a little bit of money and not spending very much effort on it. Each camera cost about $2,500 per year so it is a decent chunk of money. It is not an FTE, it is a rounding error in the overall budget, but it would buy a few ballistic windshields for cruisers which would actually help people. The real problem then is the inadvertent one which is the constant creeping surveillance of every single resident of this city and potential misuse by others other than LCPD. Recently it has been revealed that ICE despite not having their own contract with Flock regularly accesses this database by asking local police departments for the occasional favor. These don’t even have to be the jurisdiction to whose the cameras are, and it was revealed just last Friday that a detective in Texas went searching through the national database to find a woman who had an abortion in another state, and they were concerned for her safety. The kicker there is that the search didn’t even find her, so it is not only a shocking overreach of authority but it is also a testament of how the system doesn’t really do the job that maybe it was intended to in the first place. So maybe some residents are in favor of these use cases, but I bet it is not what the people that put the cameras up signed up for. Today maybe it is used to find a stolen Kia, tomorrow maybe it is being used to
Jeremy StoryChiefThe retention rates that we have set now are thirty days for license plate readers.
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Chief Jeremy Story said let me just mention data retention was the one that I missed. Retention periods have to be balanced so that we are able to solve crimes and hold people accountable for victims. But also not keep data longer where it becomes a concern. The retention rates that we have set now are thirty days for license plate readers. Which I think is a very reasonable amount and 7 days will be for all video. So a week is what we plan on setting it at, which is not a lot of time, it means people have to move fast if there’s a crime. But it also helps assuage those fears that we’re keeping data for a long time, or we can go back and put something together we shouldn’t.
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Attachments mentioning ALPR: 02.15.2026 City_Of_Las_Cruces_Report(4).pdf
Attachments mentioning ALPR: 02.08.2026 City_Of_Las_Cruces_Report(3).pdf
Attachments mentioning ALPR: 02.01.2026 City_Of_Las_Cruces_Report(2).pdf
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