Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Police Department After a Challenging Six Months

"I think it would be a miracle if I last long there," Clemans predicted when he was hired in May. "I'm very much an outsider."Ansel Herz
Tim Clemans, the award-winning programmer who bombarded the Seattle Police Department with public disclosure requests until it took the unusual step of hiring him, resigned today—the culmination of months of mounting tensions between him and the department. "I'm really just fed up at this point," he said.The tensions began in August, three months after he