New Mexico license plate reader law

New Mexico — F

New Mexico sets no limit on how long a record of where your car was can be kept. Each agency decides for itself, and some decide years. A private company logging your trips in New Mexico does not have to delete them, because there is no general privacy law here that says so. You have no clear right to see what has been collected about you.

This state exempts this data from public records. The records branch dead-ends here, and asking will not change that.

Limit on how long data is kept: None: No state statute regulating automated license plate readers appears in the National Conference of State Legislatures survey of state ALPR statutes. Nothing caps how long a plate read may be kept in New Mexico. Source
Private cameras regulated: No: New Mexico has no comprehensive consumer privacy law in effect, so there is no general right to have a business delete data it holds about you. Source
You can see your own record: No: No state statute regulating automated license plate readers appears in the National Conference of State Legislatures survey of state ALPR statutes. No plate-reader statute grants a resident access to their own reads. Source
Sharing restricted: No: No state statute regulating automated license plate readers appears in the National Conference of State Legislatures survey of state ALPR statutes. Nothing restricts who these reads may be shared with. Source
Audits required: No: No state statute regulating automated license plate readers appears in the National Conference of State Legislatures survey of state ALPR statutes. No audit or report is required. Source

Graded on all five criteria. This state has no plate-reader statute to read. Its absence is established from the national survey of state statutes, and its privacy-law entry from the IAPP tracker.

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