UPDATE: Mayor of San Francisco Gets IT Admin To Give Hime Keys To Network

The Mayor from the City of San Francisco Gavin Newsom met on Monday with the jailed Terry Childs convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the City's network.

Terry Childs, handed the passwords over to Mayor Newsom, who was "the only person he felt he could trust," according to a declaration filed in court by his attorney, Erin Crane. Newsom is ultimately responsible for the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS) where Childs worked for the past five year.

The department now has full administrative control of the network, he said in an interview Tuesday night.

Childs' attorney has asked the judge to reduce Childs $5 million bail bond, describing her client as a man who felt himself surrounded by incompetents and supervised by a manager who he felt was undermining his work. "None of the persons who requested the password information from Mr. Childs ... were qualified to have it," she said in a court filing.

Childs intends to disprove the charges against him but also "expose the utter mismanagement, negligence, and corruption at DTIS, which if left unchecked, will in fact place the City of San Francisco in danger," his motion reads.

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