You literally said, "It's also important to note that Flock is just a license plate reader."
You're spreading misinformation about what these things are and aren't. It's fucked up. But I'm hopeful that you can do better.
Also, please, for your sake -- submit a FOIA request for footage taken from a public camera. It'll get denied because public records laws consider this sorta information private. Your oversimplification is intellectually silly.