License plate readers

A 30-year resident who said being recorded entering and leaving Rio Rancho doesn't feel like freedom.

Accused the council of hypocrisy for championing IPRA privacy reform while running a plate-tracking dragnet, and challenged the mayor to produce his 'silent majority.'

An Albuquerque resident blasted the council as 'deeply unserious,' compared it to Tarrant County commissioners, called for Mayor Wymer's recall, and demanded the Flock cameras go.

Speaking for DFLOC New Mexico, he cited camera misread wrongful stops in Espanola and Aurora, Colorado's $1.9M settlement, and 34,000 unauthorized data searches to argue the program creates liability.

Called it ironic that the pledge is recited while the city violates Fourth Amendment rights, and said he respects police but the surveillance trade-off isn't fair.

A District 2 resident warned about data being sold or breached, citing his family's Eastern European history of pre-Nazi information registries, and quoted Benjamin Franklin on liberty and safety.

A District 2 resident who supports effective policing but opposes mass location data collection: 'the issue is whether a free society should build and maintain this capability at all.' Asked the council not to renew or expand surveillance contracts.

A 15-year Army veteran with a chem/bioweapons background who called the Flock cameras a Fourth Amendment violation, said emails to council and the chief went unanswered, and demanded a plan to stop the mass surveillance.

Said there's a lack of public oversight of the surveillance cameras — most people don't know who has access to the data or how long it's kept — and urged the city to slow down on the technology.

Spoke for DFLOC New Mexico against AI-powered surveillance systems, saying residents never consented to having movements logged and shared with federal agencies, and cited a petition with 30,700 signatures.