On Monday, April 24, 2017 12:42 PM, "Jennings, Sheila"
Mr. McMillan –
We have received your open records request of April 22, 2017, requesting copies of any documents since April 17, 2011 that were generated or written or forwarded or sent by, or on behalf of, the Capital Area Council of Governments from certain persons that make reference to you, John (Kevin) McMillan (, a gainfully employed and law-abiding single adult white male resident of Austin City Council voting precinct District 10).
In response to your initial question to Eric Carter, we should also let you know that CAPCOG’s homeland security program is a planning and grant administration program that is focused on training and equipping first responders in our region.
Sheila Jennings
Director of Administration
Capital Area Council of Governments
Ph: 512-916-6006 ~ Fax: 512-916-6001
sjennings@capcog.org ~ www.capcog.org
* No electronic communication by a CAPCOG employee may legally obligate the agency
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From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 2:31 AM
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Subject: 4-22-17 CAPCOG regional govt. Open Records
To: Public Information Coordinator,
Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG),
6800 Burleson Road,
Building 310,
Suite 165,
Austin, TX 78744
Office phone: (512) 916-6000
(Office FAX: 512-916-6001)
April 22, 2017
Dear Public Information Coordinator for the Austin-based Capital Area Council of Governments,
This is a Texas Open Records request i which I seek to obtain from your regional government authority that conducts planning for and serves 10 counties in this region---with Williamson County, Travis County, Bastrop County, Burnet County, and Hays County among those 10 counties---copies of the following:
---any documents that at any time since April 17, 2011, were generated or written or forwarded or sent by, or on behalf of, the primary attorney or chief attorney or General Counsel or Assistant General Counsel employed by your regional government authority at any time during that six-year time period, including on April 22, 2017, and that, in each such case, refer at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
---any documents that at any time since April 17, 2011, including on April 22, 2017, were generated or written or forwarded or sent by, or on behalf of, your regional government's Director of Homeland Security, with Mr. Eric Carter currently holding that position of leadership, and that, in each such case, refer at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
---any documents that at any time since April 17, 2011, including on April 22, 2017, were generated or written or forwarded or sent by, or on behalf of, your regional government's Executive Director, with Ms. Betty Voights currently holding that very influential position for your government agency in Austin, and that, in each such case, refer at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
EXCLUDED FROM THE SCOPE of this public-information request are any and all letters or e-mail letters that were written exclusively and solely by myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin.
INCLUDED, however, IN THE SCOPE of this public-information request are any written responses generated or authored by an official or staff member of your government agency or by anyone else other than myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, and that referred in any way to any e-mail correspondence of any type from myself.
This public-information request was prompted in part by the surprising absence of any reply note to me from your regional government authority's Director of Homeland Security, Eric Carter, in response to the following (see below) e-mailed question that I had politely posed to him in writing on November 30, 2016.
This public-information request was also prompted by the also-surprising absence of any follow-up note to me or follow-up phone call to me by Doug Greco, Chief of Staff for my own duly-elected representative in the Texas House, District 49 State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, in regard to Mr. Greco's written promise to me on March 24, 2017 (below).
In that March 24 statement, Mr. Greco had indicated to me that he would contact your government agency's Homeland Security Director, Mr. Eric Carter, and obtain for me a written response by Mr. Carter to the question that I myself had directly posed to Mr. Carter on November 30, 2016.
My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 27, 1957. I am an alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
I am also the founder and only currently approved member of a new and non-Christian religion, the implicitly-deistic, alcohol-free, marijuana-free and illicit-drug-free, and tobacco-free Progressive Prohibitionist Religion, that has very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a resident of Austin, Texas, on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.
My home address in northwest Austin ever since late September 2015:
Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...
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On Friday, March 24, 2017 4:50 PM, Gina Hinojosa <Gina.Hinojosa@house.texas.gov> wrote:
EXCLUDED FROM THE SCOPE of this public-information request are any and all letters or e-mail letters that were written exclusively and solely by myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin.
INCLUDED, however, IN THE SCOPE of this public-information request are any written responses generated or authored by an official or staff member of your government agency or by anyone else other than myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, and that referred in any way to any e-mail correspondence of any type from myself.
This public-information request was prompted in part by the surprising absence of any reply note to me from your regional government authority's Director of Homeland Security, Eric Carter, in response to the following (see below) e-mailed question that I had politely posed to him in writing on November 30, 2016.
This public-information request was also prompted by the also-surprising absence of any follow-up note to me or follow-up phone call to me by Doug Greco, Chief of Staff for my own duly-elected representative in the Texas House, District 49 State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, in regard to Mr. Greco's written promise to me on March 24, 2017 (below).
In that March 24 statement, Mr. Greco had indicated to me that he would contact your government agency's Homeland Security Director, Mr. Eric Carter, and obtain for me a written response by Mr. Carter to the question that I myself had directly posed to Mr. Carter on November 30, 2016.
My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 27, 1957. I am an alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
I am also the founder and only currently approved member of a new and non-Christian religion, the implicitly-deistic, alcohol-free, marijuana-free and illicit-drug-free, and tobacco-free Progressive Prohibitionist Religion, that has very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a resident of Austin, Texas, on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.
My home address in northwest Austin ever since late September 2015:
Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...
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On Friday, March 24, 2017 4:50 PM, Gina Hinojosa <Gina.Hinojosa@house.texas.gov> wrote:
Hello Mr. McMillan,
I’m writing to let you know that we have received your email this week, and will be looking into this. I’ll circle back soon with any information we are able to obtain.
Thank you
Doug Greco
Chief of Staff
Rep. Gina Hinojosa
I’m writing to let you know that we have received your email this week, and will be looking into this. I’ll circle back soon with any information we are able to obtain.
Thank you
Doug Greco
Chief of Staff
Rep. Gina Hinojosa
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From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 11:01 PM
To: Gina Hinojosa; Amanda Foster; Keysha Walcott; Kirk Watson; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla; FBI Dallas Bureau; Texas Rangers Division of DPS; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ); David Maxwell; Joe Ballesteros; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator; Austin Mayor Steve Adler; City of Austin Open Govt. Compliance Chief Gayle (2016); City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan; APD Officer James Turner; Public Information; Unknown National; KXAN TV News Investigations; Dustin Burrows; Jeramy Kitchen; Brian Thornton; brian.mcgiverin@austintexas.gov; Eddie Rodriguez; Donna Howard; Scott Daigle; Christian Hawley; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016); zpatton@governing.com;edaigneau@governing.com; CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters; Austin Chronicle Editors; Gerald Daugherty; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt; WallStJournalNewstips; Statesman News; Kut News; Dailytexanonline News; Daily Texan Alumni Association (2016); DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett; DMN Editorial Page Editor Keven Ann Willey; Dallas Morning News Editor-in-Chief (2017); Dallas Morning News Austin Bureau Chief (2016); UT-Austin General Counsel Patricia Ohlendorf (2016); ACC President Richard Rhodes; Notre Dame Univ. Center for Civil and Human Rights; Harvard Law School Human Rights Program (2016); Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Attorney Cousin Jack Dane; smccown@law.utexas.edu;hway@law.utexas.edu; Rudy Magallanes; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; Aurelio Contreras; Sona Nast; Texasadvocacyproject Info; Safeplace Info; Safeaustin Info; Miami Herald Letters To Editor; Outback Asst Mgr Nick Burton; Trevor Glynn; Leslie DeGraffenried; Williamson County (TX) Attorney (2016); Liz Laurence; TRA General Counsel Kenneth Besserman; Texas Legal legal-aid service (2015); Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci; Dayna Blazey; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor; Huffington Post Editors; Human Rights Law Society (U of Chicago); NBC Nightly News Headqrtrs 2016; U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (2015); U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul Communics 2017; U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (2015); Cedar Park (TX) City Manager Brenda Eivens (2014); Cedar Park (TX) Police (2016); information@trec.texas.gov; TWC Ombudsman; oprahnewsletter@oprah.com; Nicole Huff; Keyetv News; Houston Police Dept (2015); contactnicp@nicp.net; Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs Exec. Dir. Irvine; TDCJ General Counsel Rep. Patricia Fleming; Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel; Dawnna Dukes; In These Times (2016); The Daily Beast (2016); Der Spiegel (2016); The London Times Letters To Editor; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director; roger@northwestfellowship.com; Travis County Criminal Justice/Public Safety Director; CommentaryMagazineEditors
Subject: urgent qustion for Rep. Gina Hinojosa Fw: 11-30-16 question for CACOG Homeland Security Director
March 20, 2017
Dear State Representative Gina Hinojosa in Austin, Texas,
Best Wishes to you in your first year as a distinguished and very honorable member of the Texas House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature.
I am a dependably civil and law-abiding and honest, gainfully employed, permanently alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, lifelong-tattoo-less, facially-cleanshaven (no beard, no mustache, no goatee, etc.), consistently clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with others), lifelong-non-Christian-by-choice, implicitly-deistic and non-atheistic and religiously independent (Progressive Prohibitionist Religion), longtime-celibate-by-choice, single-by-choice, Scottish-English-and-German-ancestry Anglo male constituent of yours in Texas House District 49, the district you directly represent in the Texas House of Representatives currently in session here in Austin.
Rep. Hinojosa, are you willing to help me persuade the "Capital Area Council of Governments" Homeland Security Director, Mr. Eric Carter, to send me a reply letter to the following public-policy question (below) that I had posed to him nearly four months ago?
I am making this hopefully-polite request of you because I still have not heard back from Mr. Carter about this very important public-policy issue that has a huge bearing on my own personal safety at nighttime inside my locked private bedroom of my bolt-locked rental apartment in Austin.
Thank you in advance, Rep. Hinojosa, for your prompt reply note to me on this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
My home address ever since late September 2015:
Village Oaks Apartments (an apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by for-profit corporation that is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
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John Kevin McMillan
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 11:36 PM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:
To: Eric Carter, Director of Homeland Security for the "Capital Area Council of Governments", 6800 Burleson Road, Building 310, Suite 165, Austin, TX 78744.
Office phone: (512) 916-6000.
FAX: (512) 916-6001.
November 30, 2016
Dear Homeland Security Director Carter,
Would you please tell me which actions your Austin-based regional council of governments pursues to help prevent and deter any and all home-invasion crimes that would victimize rent-paying occupants and rent-paying tenants inside their rental apartment unit in Austin?
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
from a longtime rent-paying official apartment tenant or rent-paying approved apartment occupant in Austin, Texas, who has resided in Austin on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.
I am a dependably civil and law-abiding and honest, gainfully employed, permanently alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, lifelong-tattoo-less, facially-cleanshaven (no beard, no mustache, no goatee, etc.), consistently clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with others), lifelong-non-Christian-by-choice, implicitly-deistic and non-atheistic and religiously independent (Progressive Prohibitionist Religion), longtime-celibate-by-choice, single-by-choice, Scottish-English-and-German-ancestry Anglo male constituent of yours in Texas House District 49, the district you directly represent in the Texas House of Representatives currently in session here in Austin.
Rep. Hinojosa, are you willing to help me persuade the "Capital Area Council of Governments" Homeland Security Director, Mr. Eric Carter, to send me a reply letter to the following public-policy question (below) that I had posed to him nearly four months ago?
I am making this hopefully-polite request of you because I still have not heard back from Mr. Carter about this very important public-policy issue that has a huge bearing on my own personal safety at nighttime inside my locked private bedroom of my bolt-locked rental apartment in Austin.
Thank you in advance, Rep. Hinojosa, for your prompt reply note to me on this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
My home address ever since late September 2015:
Village Oaks Apartments (an apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by for-profit corporation that is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...
John Kevin McMillan
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 11:36 PM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:
To: Eric Carter, Director of Homeland Security for the "Capital Area Council of Governments", 6800 Burleson Road, Building 310, Suite 165, Austin, TX 78744.
Office phone: (512) 916-6000.
FAX: (512) 916-6001.
November 30, 2016
Dear Homeland Security Director Carter,
Would you please tell me which actions your Austin-based regional council of governments pursues to help prevent and deter any and all home-invasion crimes that would victimize rent-paying occupants and rent-paying tenants inside their rental apartment unit in Austin?
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
from a longtime rent-paying official apartment tenant or rent-paying approved apartment occupant in Austin, Texas, who has resided in Austin on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.
My home address ever since late September 2015:
Village Oaks Apartments (a NW Austin apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by a for-profit corporation, Northland, that is itself headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, Texas, 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...
with a courtesy carbon copy to the Very Honorable State Rep. Dustin Burrows of the Texas Legislature House Committee on County Affairs, and Rep. Burrows's high-ranking staff member Mr. Jeramy Kitchen. This courtesy carbon-copy is being shared with Rep. Burrows and Jeramy Kitchen based on the information I read online tonight that the Texas House Committee on County Affairs has jurisdiction and legal authority over any and all of the Regional Councils of Government in Texas.
another courtesy carbon-copy to Brian Thornton, the very polite and helpful Policy Director for Austin City Council Member Ellen Troxclair, and who is himself a very distinguished former Legislative Director for the Texas House Committee on County Affairs of the Texas Legislature.
John Kevin McMillan
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