That website is a bit misleading, their "worldwide" map includes ALL ALPR cameras, not just the ones operated by Flock or for-profit surveillance companies.

The ones on their map near my location are all for automatic license plate recognition to enter parking garages. Not exactly the dystopian nightmare their homepage warned me about.

You assume those aren't logged and accessible by the government. They are.

Of course they are, that's how they track memberships, payment history, and that kind of stuff. Can't say I really care about a paid parking garage keeping a customer registry.

I trust the government a lot more than some random third party company ("flock"), though.

The point isn’t what is the company doing with the data but rather how secure are these IP cameras?

Some are for government spying while others are for government spying and other bad actors.

I’d love to gain access to said parking garage meter camera and scan plates too, only I’m looking for high value targets that just got to work and thus, left their home.

I’m looking at software used to capture, track, and pull data from all these sources in an attempt to build a dragnet like service where you can ask “where is license plate <bingo>”?

That seems contradictory. You don't care about a parking garage operator, but at the same time distrust "some random third party company"?

Wait till you find out about your cell phone…