Public notices published in a legal newspaper help inform citizens about the work of government and how their taxpayer dollars are being spent. New Mexico law requires a variety of public notices to be published, including local government meeting minutes, bid notices, election notices, zoning ordinances, delinquent property taxes, budgets, school report cards, amendments to the NM Constitution and many other important matters of state and local government and the courts.
This website is a compilation of public notices which are first published in newspapers across New Mexico. The notices are updated continually after the publishing date of each newspaper. This is a free-access website with a wide variety of search functions. There is no cost to any government entity to support this site; rather, it is a public service by New Mexico’s newspapers to disseminate this information as widely as possible to the taxpayers and citizens of New Mexico.
Public notices are a crucial part of the legal process, notifying taxpayers and citizens of proposed or pending actions by government entities, or of the courts, that may affect them individually, or their personal property. Public notices in newspapers fulfill these important steps in the legal process: accessibility, achievable, independent, and verifiable.
Public notices contain important information that serve multiple purposes. While this site is free access and the content is available at no cost to the public, the website does offer an expedited delivery function by email of customized searches by keywords, or key phrases. There is a fee for the expedited delivery but not for the content that is delivered. For example, within hours of them being published, contractors can receive all bid notices published in any of the 33 counties across New Mexico. For a more specific search, such as for roofing, simply further define the search keywords or phrase. If you rely on public notices for your business or just want to track specific information, sign up to use Smart Search for a free trial period during our introductory period for this new site. After that, subscription rates would apply.