And guess what? The city has a jail. If this had happened in a private enterprise, we probably would never have heard about it. I get calls from new sysadmins all the time who take over systems that the previous sysadmin had password protected and nobody know what the passwords are. And 5 million dollars bail? That is insane. Although I don't agree with his tactics, I also don't know every detail of the matter. I think he really had the best interest of the network at heart. Unfortunatly, although he may have designed and built it, and I'm sure he knows more about it then anyone alive, he does not own that network. But I also believe that new DIS may have oversteped a little, demanding passwords for systems she has no clue about. All she needed to do was create a password policy and ensure that at least one other QUALIFIED person would have access to them in the event of "hit by bus" scenario. I hope they acquit him.