A little more than a week ago, you’d probably never heard of Timothy Clemans. The 24-year-old had been known as Anon, an anonymous programmer who has been peppering city agencies with bulk public records requests (or PDRs) on body cam footage since September. (While SPD agreed to cooperate with Clemans’s requests, the Bremerton and Poulsbo police departments chose to suspend their body cam programs instead.)

But since then he’s been outed by the Seattle Times. And last Friday, at an SPD hackathon he inspired, Clemans told me some big news: “There’s a live feed of messages sent from the King County domain.” As of this month, he’s being cc’d on most of the office’s responses to public records requests.

Clemans, a lanky young guy with big, round, slate-colored eyes, showed me a handmade database. It displays a real-time feed of every PDR response from the King County Sheriff’s Office—except those in which the requester is involved in the content of the PDR.

For example, if you’re filing a PDR about your own personal DUI records, that request would be exempt from Clemans’s public database. But all other requests are fair game.

The story of how he got them is simple. When Clemans filed a bulk request for King County PDRs, King County officials decided to take the SPD’s diplomatic route. Now, when the Sheriff’s Office responds to PDRs, this chunk of text runs at the bottom of the e-mail:

“The King County Sheriff's Office has received the following request from an anonymous requestor, "Anon Anon" at policevideorequests@gmail.com : "I request records provided one calendar day prior to date of this email being sent to any non-involved third parties be provided via email or OneDrive." This is an automated daily public disclosure request. In an effort toward transparency and efficiency, Anon Anon is being copied on all public disclosure correspondence where we are releasing information to requestors. This includes, but is not limited to, requesters who are non-involved third parties as it relates to the records they are seeking. If you have questions, please let us know!"

Clemans clicked on a sample, an e-mail to KOMO News reporter Lindsay Cohen. “I bet the lady from KOMO was like, ‘What the fuck,’” he says. I asked him whether he thinks anyone knows this is going on.

Clemans’s face turned pink. “No!”

The sheriff’s office started automatically cc’ing Clemans on December 12, according to spokesperson Sergeant DB Gates. “Hopefully in the future, we’re aiming to get a program that will automatically upload all PDRs to a publicly viewable website,” she explained by e-mail.

Clemans showed King County officials his own version, but Gates says that King County will not be using it.

“This is a huge staffing and financial commitment,” Gates added. “We have limited personnel and money to pay for IT upgrades. Our hope is for sometime in 2015 to have the program up and running.”

But Clemans’s DIY program is already up and running. And he’s hoping to have a number of other “mass publishing” projects up by the end of the year, too.

This work takes up much of his life now. He does it all for free, even though he has less time to do the freelance programming that supported him before.

“It just became an absolute obsession,” he said. “We need transparency in our system, and also increased privacy.”

There’s only one other time Clemans can think of when a conviction like this gripped him so strongly. Three years ago, he created a world record by visiting the Space Needle for 158 consecutive days. Back then, he described the trips as a character-building exercise, a way to get over his shyness.

At Friday’s hackathon at the Seattle Police Department, almost everyone already knew who Clemans was. When SPD spokesperson Sean Whitcomb went around the room, asking teams to identify themselves, he gestured toward Clemans. “Anonymous, of course!”

Clemans’s face turned pink again. But he quickly raised both hands.