TEXAS 'HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION' STATE AGENCY OMBUDSMAN ON JANUARY 22, 2018, SENDS REPLY NOTE PROMISING TO INVESTIGATE AN ISSUE IN RESPONSE TO A COURTESY CARBON-COPY OF A PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST OF MINE TO THE 'TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION' STATE AGENCY THAT HAS LEGAL JURISDICTION OVER ALLEGED SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF APARTMENT TENANTS AND OTHER CIVIL-RIGHTS ISSUES FOR TENANTS OR FOR TEXANS AT THEIR WORKPLACE IN NEARLY ALL TEXAN CITIES

HHSC Contact 

To mcmillanj@att.net (e-mail address for myself, John Kevin McMillan)

(Subject:) McMillan- 1-22-18 PIR re: TWC blocks on emails from me- A01222018.0130007

On Monday, January 22, 2018 8:43 AM, HHSC Contact wrote:

Mr. McMillan,

Thank you for your inquiry. This email is in response to the correspondence you submitted to the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Office of the Ombudsman.

Your request has been forwarded to a complaint resolution specialist for further consideration and response. An Ombudsman staff member will contact you when the issue has been resolved or if further information is needed.

The tracking number to your complaint is A01222018.0130007

If you have any questions or need more information, you may call our office at 1-877-787-8999 or visit us online at www.hhsc.state.tx.us/ombudsman.

Thank you,

Eldaid Santander
HHS Office of the Ombudsman
Ombudsman I - Hotline Unit

Office: 1-877-787-8999
Health and Human Services Ombudsman
https://hhs.texas.gov/about-hhs/your-rights/office-ombudsman
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On Monday, January 22, 2018 12:50 AM, John McMillan wrote:

Open Records Coordinator,
Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) state agency,
101 East 15th Street,
Room 266,
Austin, TX 78778-0001
e-mail: open.records@twc.state.tx.us
FAX: 512-463-2990

January 22, 2018

Dear TWC Open Records Coordinator,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from your state agency in Austin a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or letters or memoranda or advisory opinions, between or among Texas Workforce Commission state agency employees or officials at any time since 8 a.m. August 14, 2014, in which one or more TWC officials or TWC work supervisors or TWC attorneys in Austin have stated in writing that the Office of the Ombudsman of the TWC, or any other cited office or division or official or attorney of the TWC, is given permission by your state agency to, or is officially authorized by the TWC to, either impose an automatic block on one or more of the expected future incoming e-mails from myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin, or to automatically discard as "spam" one or more of the expected future e-mails from myself to any particular cited office or division or official of the TWC.

Included in the scope of this public-information request is the following (below) quoted text of a 2014 intra-agency written reply note that Texas Workforce Commission state agency General Counsel Paul N. Jones wrote and sent to TWC Civil Rights Division Director Lowell A. Keig.

The cited legal document was released to me in response to a March 2015 public-information request that I submitted to the TWC. According to online records for Mr. Keig, he is also cited as having served as the chair of the Health Law Section of the Austin Bar Association.

"From: Jones, Paul N (the TWC state agency General Counsel, with an official E-mail address of: "paul.jones@twc.state.tx.us")

"Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:30 PM

"To: Keig, Lowell A (the TWC state agency Civil Rights Division Director, with an official e-mail address of: "lowell.keig@twc.state.tx.us")

"Subject: Re: 8-14-14 urgent note to APD and Travis County District Attorney re: crime case

"Absolutely

"Sent from my iPhone

"On Aug 14, 2014, at 12:29 PM, "Keig, Lowell A" wrote:

"Paul:

"May I block or send directly to junk mail any further emails from Mr. (John Kevin) McMillan (of Austin) since they do not involve civil rights discrimination?

"--Lowell

"Sent from my iPhone"
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This public-information request is prompted in part by a December 13, 2017, e-mail Open Records response (below) I received from your state agency in Austin which stated that your agency's Office of the Ombudsman did not have any applicable documents generated by that TWC office which referred at least once to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.

The following contains some of my e-mail correspondence with your state agency on that:

"On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:51 PM, John McMillan wrote:

"Dear Ms. Chastain at your Austin-based Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) state agency with legal authority over many of the sexual-harassment cases and many of the other civil-rights violations cases that each involve alleged violations of the civil rights of Texan apartment tenants or alleged violations of the civil rights of gainfully-employed persons at their workplace in Texas,

"This is to confirm your very succinct December 13, 2017-dated e-mail reply letter (below), stating that you have no record of any documents generated by your TWC Ombudsman at any time since August 1, 2001, that refer in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.

"I am resident of Austin District 10.

"I am very surprised and disappointed by your 'no documents' reply to me on this, particularly since I have written and sent e-mail letters of complaint to the TWC Ombudsman in Austin on dozens of occasions in the last several years.

"Sincerely and Best Wishes,
"John Kevin McMillan, a gainfully employed single adult white gentleman and former full-time employee in Austin of the 'Texas Department of Public Safety' state agency.
My current home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com"

John Kevin McMillan

"On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:19 AM, "Chastain,Lona" wrote:

"TWC has no responsive records.

"Respectfully,

"/lc
"Lona Chastain
Assistant General Counsel/Open Records Coordinator
Texas Workforce Commission
101 East 15th Street, Room 266
Austin, Texas 78778-0001
Desk: 512-463-2238; cell: 512-914-4721"

"From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]

"Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 3:08 AM

"To: Open Records ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; Gerald Daugherty ; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; Gina Hinojosa ; doug.greco@house.texas.gov; Amanda Foster ; Kirk Watson ; Public Information ; Senator Kirk Watson Constituent Services Rep. Walcott (2016) ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Texas Legal legal-aid service (2015) ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; FBI Dallas Bureau ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; State Comptroller Criminal Investigations Division Chief Martin Cano ; Sao State Tx Webmaster ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) ; KXAN TV News Investigations ; BBC News Story Ideas (2017) ; Unknown National ; statesman ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; Sona Nast ; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon) ; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015) ; Trevor Glynn ; District 8 ; Christian Hawley ; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan ; Texasadvocacyproject Info ; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett ; APD Officer James Turner ; rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; White House Fellows Program 2017 ; Attorney General of Massachusetts ; Bethany United Methodist Church Assoc Pastor Sheri Clifton ; Travis County Intergovernmental Relations Coordinator Eckstein ; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy ; Harvard Law School Human Rights Program (2016) ; roger@northwestfellowship.com; Notre Dame Univ. Center for Civil and Human Rights ; Outback Asst Mgr Nick Burton ; Dayna Blazey ; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office) ; Doc Webmaster ; U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul Communics 2017 ; Human Rights Law Society (U of Chicago) ; Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci ; Steven Rich


"Subject: 12-11-17 TWC PIR re: TWC Ombudsman and me

"December 11, 2017

"Dear Public Information Coordinator for the Texas Workforce Commission state agency in Austin, Texas,

"This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from your State Government of Texas agency a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mails and memoranda, that at any time since August 1, 2001, were generated or written or typed or sent or e-mailed or forwarded or mailed or FAXed by any official or staff member of your state agency's Office of the Ombudsman, and that, in each such case, referred at least once in any way to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin...."

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My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. My date of birth is April 27, 1957. I am a native of Lincoln, Nebraska.

I have most recently resided in Austin proper on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.

I am gainfully employed and the founder and only approved current member of a new and non-Christian religion, the "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion," that has very stringent membership-eligibility requirements. In the late 1990s and in 2000, I gave several televised speeches about that fully independent and new religion of mine on local community-access television in Austin.


My e-mail address throughout the applicable multi-year time period of this public-information request is: mcmillanj@att.net. I have maintained and paid for a personal landline phone number for myself of (512) 342-2295 throughout the entire multi-year time period applicable to this public-information request.


In the applicable time period ever since August 24, 2014, I have resided as a rent-paying tenant or rent-paying occupant in the following respective rental apartment units:
---Wind River Crossing Apartments, 11411 Research Boulevard, Building 3, Apartment 325, Austin, TX 78759;
---Crossland Economy Studios (an Extended Stay America rental-housing complex), 12621 Hymeadow Road, Apartment 133, Austin, TX 78729;
---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, TX 78759;
---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759.


I hope to hear from you soon in response to this January 22, 2018-dated e-mail public-information request to your State Government of Texas agency in Austin.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.

My new official home address ever since September 5, 2017:
Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759,
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com/