A computer programmer whose massive public records request threatened Seattle's plan to put body cameras on its police officers has made peace with the police department.

Today's Seattle Times reports that Seattle Police Department COO Mike Wagers has invited the man into police headquarters to meet with him and tech staff to discuss how he could receive video regularly. As a condition of the meeting, he has dropped the public records request.

"I’m hoping he can help us with the larger systemic issue—how can we release as much video as possible and redact what we need to redact so we can be transparent?” Wagers told the newspaper. “What do we have to lose? We have nothing to hide. There are no secrets.”

In his original request, the man, who uses the online handle "policevideorequests," had asked for "details on every 911 dispatch on which officers are sent; all the written reports they produce; and details of each computer search generated by officers when they run a person’s name, or check a license plate or address." He said his intention was to point out privacy problems with current public records laws.

The request gave police second thoughts about their plans to start a pilot program putting body cameras on 12 police officers. In the long term, Seattle hopes to put body cameras on more than 1,000 police by 2016. It's one of several cities that are considering equipping police with body cameras following protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

Wagers said the new plan is to release some redacted video to the requestor and other local "techies" and then have them return on December 19 for a "hack-a-thon," where they can present their ideas to the cops. Wagers said he and Seattle police chief Kathleen O'Toole have been talking for months about ways for Seattle locals with technical knowledge to help the department.

"I’ll get all the right people around the table and we’ll have a discussion," Wagers said. "We live in a tech hub; there’s got to be a lot of talented techies out there to help us."

The anonymous 20-year-old programmer said he isn't being hired by the police, but the police have invited him to help them put videos online, without audio.

The same man, who identified himself to the newspaper as a 20-year-old local programmer, may have been behind a massive request for all city e-mail. That anonymous request was withdrawn yesterday. The Seattle Times asked the 20-year-old requestor if he was behind the request, but he declined to answer.

In a comment on today's Seattle Times article, policevideorequests gave more detail on his initial thoughts: