'TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION' STATE AGENCY IN AUSTIN, ON FEB. 13, 2018, STATES IN FOUR-PAGE UNSIGNED REPLY LETTER TO MYSELF THAT TWC PLANS TO CHARGE ME AN ESTIMATED $64 FOR RESPONDING TO MY JANUARY 22, 2018, E-MAIL PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST FOCUSED ON TWC BLOCKS OF E-MAILS FROM ME

"Texas Workforce Commission
"A Member of Texas Workforce Solutions

"February 13, 2018

"John McMillan
"10926 Jollyville Road
"Building 16 Apt 1609
"Austin, TX 78759

"Request No.: 180122-008

"Dear John McMillan:

"In response to your Open Records request assigned the above no., we estimate the cost to be over $40.00. The cost of locating, copying and compiling the information responsive to your request is itemized (page three, below, in this four-page reply letter from the TWC) on the attached cost estimate. For work to begin on your request, please remit the cost listed in the estimate ($64.00). Send payment ($64.00) to Texas Workforce Commission -- Revenue and Trust Management, P.O. Box 877 Austin, TX 78767. Please include the Request Job number listed above with your payment. ....
_______

"Itemized Search Items

"Staff Labor Charge

"@$15.00/hr + 20% overhead

"Pages: 0 @$0.10/page $0.00

"Units: 0 @0.00/Unit $0.00

"Labor Hours: 3 @$18.00/hr $54.00

"Manually Entered Charges: $0.00

"Total for Search Item: $54.00

"Computer Processing -- Lan or PC

"Computer processing -- Lan or

"Pages: 0 @$0.00/page $0.00

"Units: 0 @$0.00/Unit $0.00

"Labor Hours: 10 @$1.00/hr $10.00

"Manually Entered Charges: $0.00

"Total for Search Item: $10.00
________

"Sincerely,
"Maria Rivera
"Assistant Disclosure Officer
"Texas Workforce Commission,
"Open Records Section
"101 E. 15th Street, Room 266
"Austin, Texas 78778-0001
"Tel: (512) 463-2422
"Fax: 512-463-2990"
______

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"
_____
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...."
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/

AUSTIN-BASED STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE, IN FEB. 23, 2018, REPLY LETTER TO ME, PROMISES TO 'KEEP IN MIND' HAWAII'S PUBLIC-POLICY STRATEGIES FOR DETERRING GUN-RELATED VIOLENCE

On Friday, February 23, 2018 10:11 AM, Amanda Foster wrote:

Mr. McMillan,

Thank you for sharing your ideas on how to deter violent crime here in Texas. We will keep in mind Hawaii's public policy actions as we research potential solutions during the interim.

Amanda Foster, LMSW |Legislative Director
State Representative Gina Hinojosa
amanda.foster@house.texas.gov
____________
From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 

Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:13 PM

To: Gina Hinojosa; Amanda Foster; doug.greco@house.texas.gov; Kirk Watson; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; statesman; Austin Chronicle Editors; Texas Monthly Editors (2017); Texas DPS Office of General Counsel; Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016); Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator; Traviscountydemocrats Info; Travis County Republican Party (2016); Eddie Rodriguez; Dawnna Dukes; Donna Howard; APD Officer James Turner; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul Communics 2017; Federal Law Enf. Officers Assn; Cedar Park (TX) Police (2016); Leander Police Chief Minton; Pflugerville (TX) Police Chief Charles Hooker (2016); Bee Cave (TX) Police Dept. (2016); Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci; Sunset Valley (TX) Police Chief Sean Ford (2016); Amie Ely; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ); The Republican National Committee; Democratic National Committee; Republican Party of Texas; Austin Mayor Steve Adler; Council Member Kathie Tovo; district9@austintexas.gov; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015); Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016); Travis County Commissioner Margaret Gomez; Gerald Daugherty; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt; Travis County Criminal Justice/Public Safety Director; HillCountryNewsEditorScottMcDonald; Houston Police Dept (2015); Dallas Police Chief David Brown; DMN Editorial Page Editor Keven Ann Willey; DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor; White House Fellows Program 2017; U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (2015); cji@uh.edu; The University of Texas at Austin; ACC President Richard Rhodes; Superintendent; Liz Laurence; Sona Nast; Leslie DeGraffenried; Annie Arnold Lancaster; Eric Jones; Outback Asst Mgr Nick Burton; Trevor Glynn; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims; Texasadvocacyproject Info; Rainn Info; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon); zpatton@governing.com; edaigneau@governing.com; Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Assoc (2016); Public Information; FBI Dallas Bureau; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Christian Hawley; pastor@redeemer.net; Missouri Synod Lutheran HQ2015; Notre Dame Univ. Center for Civil and Human Rights; Human Rights Law Society (U of Chicago); spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov; Texas City Management Pres-elect 2017; Texas City Management Pres. 2017; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016); Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center; Texas Observer Editors; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla; Texas Rangers Division of DPS; Unknown National; CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management; NBC Nightly News Headqrtrs 2016; Dailytexanonline News; CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters; CBS News Story Ideas Editors; news@cbsaustin.com; WallStJournalNewstips; Criminal Justice Journalists Board Member Rashbaum; District 8; zachandalex17@gmail.com; Steven Rich; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; BBC News Story Ideas (2017)

Subject: 2-20-18 gun-violence deterrence strategies for TX Leg

February 20, 2018

Dear State Representative Gina Hinojosa and State Senator Kirk Watson of the Texas Legislature governing body for our often-great State of Texas,

I am a tax-paying, gainfully employed, dependably civil and law-abiding and tactfully honest, vigilant and crime-deterrence-minded, Anglo adult male constituent of each of you. I reside in our state capital city of Austin in each of your two respective legislative districts.

I am very concerned about the outrageous frequency of homicides and other violent crimes in Austin, Texas, and elsewhere in Texas these days.

As each of you may be aware, I myself am a permanently-drinking-alcohol-free, anti-marijuana-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, lifelong-tattoo-less, facially-cleanshaven and anti-facial-hair-minded, consistently clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with others), hygienic, single-by-choice, longtime-celibate-by-choice (including ever since the day I moved to NW Austin in August 2001), British-and-German-ancestry constituent of each of you.

I am also the founder and only approved member of the non-Christian and quality-of-life-minded and implicitly-deistic, non-atheistic, "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", a new "Honor Society" religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

I am also a former full-time employee in Austin of the Texas Department of Public Safety state agency.

Today during my leisuretime, I googled "least violent states" in order to identify which U.S. states have been the most successful at deterring violent crime. As you might have guessed, Texas was not among the states fitting that very honorable description. Hawaii, however, was cited for great success in that category.

I am writing you both today to urge each of you to please review the very logical public-policy actions that the U.S. state of Hawaii has pursued to help deter violent crime there.

The online profile (see last item, below) on Hawaii that I obtained today through the above-cited Google search states that the Aloha State "requires residents to obtain a permit with a waiting period of 14 days minimum before they can get a gun."

That factual statement, along with the others cited below, was contained in a "247wallst.com" online blog that was posted on July 12, 2017. The blog was entitled "America's Most Violent (and Peaceful) States", and was written by Samuel Stebbins, Evan Comen, and Michael B. Sauter. I was not able to find any copyright information for that particular blog, but otherwise would have definitely cited that as well in this letter to each of you two very distinguished state legislators who directly represent me in the Texas Legislature.

The above-cited flattering profile on Hawaii also states that "in June 2016, Hawaii became the first state to register its gun owners in an FBI database."

The profile on Hawaii also points out that guns are involved in only 21 percent of all homicides there and in only 20 percent of all suicides there --- "the smallest share of any state," the cited online profile (below) states.

The violent crime rate in Hawaii (293.4 per 100,000) is 20th lowest in the nation, and the murder rate there (1.3 per 100,000) is second lowest in the entire nation, according to the above-cited online account that I read today.

Rep. Hinojosa and Senator Watson, are either of you willing to propose to the Texas Legislature that our U.S. state adopt both of the two above-cited strategies in order to help reduce the violent crime rate here in Texas?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the rational-goals-minded and non-praying "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".

My home address: Village Oaks Apts. (a NW Austin apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by two separate for-profit corporations that each have the same headquarters address in Newton, Mass.), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, 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 ...

America’s Most Violent (and Peaceful) States





America’s Most Violent (and Peaceful) States
Source: Thinkstock 50. Vermont > Violent crime rate: 118.0 per 100,000 (the lowest) > Murder rate: 1.6 per...

John Kevin McMillan

IDEA ON HOW TO HELP DETER UNWANTED PREGNANCIES: STUDY THE SIX U.S. STATES WITH THE LOWEST TEENAGE PREGNANCY RATES

Based on the above-cited criterion, the leading U.S. states to study are: New Hampshire; Vermont; Minnesota; Massachusetts; Utah; and Wisconsin (see more information, below).

A more complete report on this can be found at the following webpage:
https://www.livescience.com/45355-teen-pregnancy-rates-by-state.html

If you visit that webpage at the "livescience.com" website, you will find an enlightening online article that highlights reported teenage pregnancy rates for each and every U.S. state in the year 2010. The article was written by Tanya Lewis, staff writer for Livescience.com. Ms. Lewis wrote and posted her article on May 5, 2014.

Livescience.com's website bears the copyright date of 2018. Livescience.com is headquartered at 150 5th Avenue, 9th Floor, New York City, New York, 10011. The office phone number for Livescience.com is: (212) 703-5800. An e-mail contact address for Livescience.com is: info@livescience.com. Livescience.com's parent company is Purch. Purch is headquartered at 11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor, New York City, New York, 10036.

Ms. Lewis in her online article reported that according to the New York City-based Guttmacher Institute (a globally influential non-profit organization that promotes sexual and reproductive rights through factual research and evidence-based advocacy), the following U.S. states in the year 2010 each had an incidence of teenage pregnancy that year which was fewer than 40 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents in that state.

These statistics are especially noteworthy because 77 percent of all teenage pregnancies that occur each year in the United States are unwanted----either "unplanned" or occurring "too soon", according to online data from the National Center for Health Statistics of the United States Government.

Helping to reduce the unwanted pregnancy rate is one of the leading religious and societal goals of my one-member (myself, only) and non-Christian, pragmatically idealistic and factually-based "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".

Women and girls who are able to avoid sustaining ANY unwanted pregnancy, along with their boyfriends or husbands or male dating partners, lead much happier and healthier and more productive and more financially successful lives. And the absence of any "unwanted child" resulting from those women's or girls' and their male sex partners' lives, also helps to reduce the crime rate in the United States. Unwanted children are significantly more likely to later become criminal persons than are children who are wanted and loved from the very start.

The following are the six U.S. states that reportedly had the lowest teenage pregnancy rates in the year 2010:

---New Hampshire (lowest teenage pregnancy rate in the United States, at 28 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 female teenage residents in that state); 

---Vermont (second-lowest in the nation, at 32 per 1,000);

---Minnesota (third-lowest teenage pregnancy rate, at 36 per 1,000 teenage female residents of that state);

---Massachusetts (fourth-lowest teenage pregnancy rate, at 37 per 1,000);

---Utah, with 38 reported teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents;

and

---Wisconsin, with 39 reported teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents.

STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA AND STATE SENATOR KIRK WATSON ON FEBRUARY 20, 2018, RECEIVE TENTATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM MYSELF ON HOW TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF VIOLENT CRIME IN TEXAS

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:12 PM, John McMillan wrote:

February 20, 2018

Dear State Representative Gina Hinojosa and State Senator Kirk Watson of the Texas Legislature governing body for our often-great State of Texas,

I am a tax-paying, gainfully employed, dependably civil and law-abiding and tactfully honest, vigilant and crime-deterrence-minded, Anglo adult male constituent of each of you. I reside in our state capital city of Austin in each of your two respective legislative districts.

I am very concerned about the outrageous frequency of homicides and other violent crimes in Austin, Texas, and elsewhere in Texas these days.

As each of you may be aware, I myself am a permanently-drinking-alcohol-free, anti-marijuana-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, lifelong-tattoo-less, facially-cleanshaven and anti-facial-hair-minded, consistently clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with others), hygienic, single-by-choice, longtime-celibate-by-choice (including ever since the day I moved to NW Austin in August 2001), British-and-German-ancestry constituent of each of you.

I am also the founder and only approved member of the non-Christian and quality-of-life-minded and implicitly-deistic, non-atheistic, "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", a new "Honor Society" religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

I am also a former full-time employee in Austin of the Texas Department of Public Safety state agency.

Today during my leisuretime, I googled "least violent states" in order to identify which U.S. states have been the most successful at deterring violent crime. As you might have guessed, Texas was not among the states fitting that very honorable description. Hawaii, however, was cited for great success in that category.


I am writing you both today to urge each of you to please review the very logical public-policy actions that the U.S. state of Hawaii has pursued to help deter violent crime there.


The online profile (see last item, below) on Hawaii that I obtained today through the above-cited Google search states that the Aloha State "requires residents to obtain a permit with a waiting period of 14 days minimum before they can get a gun."


That factual statement, along with the others cited below, was contained in a "247wallst.com" online blog that was posted on July 12, 2017. The blog was entitled "America's Most Violent (and Peaceful) States", and was written by Samuel Stebbins, Evan Comen, and Michael B. Sauter. I was not able to find any copyright information for that particular blog, but otherwise would have definitely cited that as well in this letter to each of you two very distinguished state legislators who directly represent me in the Texas Legislature.


The above-cited flattering profile on Hawaii also states that "in June 2016, Hawaii became the first state to register its gun owners in an FBI database."


The profile on Hawaii also points out that guns are involved in only 21 percent of all homicides there and in only 20 percent of all suicides there --- "the smallest share of any state," the cited online profile (below) states.


The violent crime rate in Hawaii (293.4 per 100,000) is 20th lowest in the nation, and the murder rate there (1.3 per 100,000) is second lowest in the entire nation, according to the above-cited online account that I read today.


Rep. Hinojosa and Senator Watson, are either of you willing to propose to the Texas Legislature that our U.S. state adopt both of the two above-cited strategies in order to help reduce the violent crime rate here in Texas?


Sincerely and Best Wishes,


John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the rational-goals-minded and non-praying "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address: Village Oaks Apts. (a NW Austin apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by two separate for-profit corporations that each have the same headquarters address in Newton, Mass.), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, 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 ...




America’s Most Violent (and Peaceful) States













America’s Most Violent (and Peaceful) States
Source: Thinkstock 50. Vermont > Violent crime rate: 118.0 per 100,000 (the lowest) > Murder rate: 1.6 per...





John Kevin McMillan

PRAISE FOR THE 'PEANUT-BUTTER BROWNIE' AT THE 'BLUE BAKER' BAKERY AND PIZZERIA LOCATION NEAR THE ARBORETUM

I was delighted this Monday evening by the flavor and texture of the inexpensive "peanut-butter brownie" I purchased in the "Blue Baker" location near the Aboretum in northwest Austin.

That brownie combines the flavors of peanut butter and chocolate in a very agreeable manner.

Price was only $2.75.

The "Blue Baker" company was reportedly established in College Station, Texas, and now has one location in Austin, Texas.

That Austin location is situated at 10,000 Research Boulevard near Great Hills Trail----on the northeastern edge of the Arboretum shopping center. The office phone number for that "Blue Baker" location is: (512) 346-2583.

This is the first example I myself can recall of a "culinary trend" that began in the hometown for Texas A&M University's main campus, College Station, and spread to Austin, the hometown for the main campus of the University of Texas.

I should keep in mind, though, that the Aggies are famous for their "fish frying event" fund-raisers, and possibly that was a culinary tradition that has been influential in Austin as well.

In my own life, I am under doctor's orders to refrain from eating ANY deep-fried foods on any occasion for the rest of my life. So the "Aggie fish-fry tradition" will not play any role in my own life in the year 2018 and beyond.

ANOTHER MYSTERY INVOLVING RUSSIAN CITIZENS: RUSSIAN READERS AND AMERICAN READERS OF MY BLOG IN VIRTUAL TIE FOR FIRST PLACE THIS WEEK

Russians and Americans read my blogs this week at a nearly identical rate of frequency, and far more than persons of any other cited nationality.

Americans accounted for 203 pageviews of my blogs this week; Russians accounted for 192 pageviews.

(By contrast, the number three nation for readership of my blogs this week, India, accounted for only 25 total pageviews.)

What are the implications of this?

Do many Russians possibly regard me as being a human-rights victim in Austin, Texas?

Do many Russians regard me as being a conservative left-wing gentleman who, in their view, has myself been persecuted for many years in Austin, Texas, by liberal left-wing Central Texans (the "'Legalize Marijuana' crusaders", for instance) or possibly by some conservative right-wing Central Texans (who are possibly dismayed by the fact that I myself am not a Christian, though I do have a strong Christian heritage through my ancestors, and I am a certified direct descendant of the Rev. William Brewster, the great Puritan religious leader who served as head chaplain on the Mayflower)?

Since I never receive any letter or e-mail note or phone call from anyone who states that he or she is a Russian citizen, it is difficult for me to know the answer to either of those two questions.

Yet another example of a baffling question in my own life that somehow involves Russian citizens of today.

HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ON FEB. 12, 2018, WITHDRAWS ITS WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS IN WHICH HPD HAD SOUGHT A RULING FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN A CONTEXT REFERRING TO MYSELF, FORMER HARRIS COUNTY RESIDENT JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN DISTRICT 10

(The following is the exactly quoted text of a courtesy two-page signed carbon-copy that was mailed to me by the Houston Police Department on Feb. 13, 2018, according to the printed date on the metered letter below, and was received on Thursday, Feb. 15, in U.S. Postal Service mail delivery to my current apartment unit's designated mailbox at Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road in northwest Austin. I reside in the District 10 section of this state-capital city---a district for which Austin City Council Member Alison Alter is the duly-elected official direct-representative for any and all District 10 residents, including myself, former Harris County (TX) resident John Kevin McMillan, on the Austin City Council:)

"City of Houston
"Houston Police Department
"1200 Travis
"Houston, Texas 77002-6000
"713-308-1600 (phone number)

"Sylvester Turner, Mayor

"CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS: Brenda Stardig, Jerry Davis, Ellen R. Cohen, Dwight A. Boykins, Dave Martin, Steve Le, Greg Travis, Karla Cisneros, Robert Gallegos, Mike Laster, Larry V. Green, Mike Knox, Dwight W. Robinson, Michael Kubosh, Amanda K. Edwards, Jack Christie

"CITY CONTROLLER: Chris B. Brown

"Art Acevedo
"Chief of Police

"February 12, 2018

"Attention: Open Records Division
"The Honorable Ken Paxton
"Texas Attorney General
"P.O. Box 12548
"Austin, Texas 78711-2548

"Re: Public Information Act request received on January 22, 2018 from John K. McMillan requesting to obtain from your municipal law-enforcement agency in Houston, Texas, a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or public-statements or press releases or any letters to other police chiefs in other Texan or American cities, that were each written by or on behalf of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo or any staff member of his at any time since November 30, 2016, and that, in each and every such case, refers or refer at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas; ORU No. 18-00718

"Dear General Paxton:

"The Houston Police Department hereby withdraws the enclosed request for an opinion from your office because the Department has no responsive documents.

"Should you have any questions, please contact Joe Zapata, Office of Public Affairs, Houston Police Department at 713-308-3264.

"Sincerely,

"Kristie L. Lewis
"HPD Staff Attorney

"kll:jz

"Enclosures"

"cc: John Kevin McMillan

Village Oaks Apartment
10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609
Austin, Texas 78759
Sent Via Regular Mail
(W/o Exhibits)"

AUSTIN'S NEW CITY MANAGER FROM MINNEAPOLIS, SPENCER CRONK, ON FEBRUARY 13, 2018, ACCEPTS AN E-MAILED PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION FROM A NEW CONSTITUENT OF HIS WHO ALSO HAS A MINNEAPOLIS BACKGROUND

(The following public-policy letter to Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk was e-mailed today to his official new 
e-mail address with the City Government of Austin: "spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov".)

On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 4:06 PM, John McMillan wrote:

To: Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk, City Manager's Office at City Hall, City Government of Austin, 301 West Second Street, Third Floor, Austin, Texas. Office phone number: (512) 974-2200.

February 13, 2018

Dear Austin City Manager Cronk,

Congratulations on your very impressive and influential new role as City Manager of Austin in this often-great southwestern state of Texas.

I am a Lincoln, Nebraska, native and former resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am also a former full-time professional daily newspaper reporter in Minnesota who earned a Master's Degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Mr. Cronk, I am writing you today as an Austin (TX) District 10 resident with a very important request.

As one of your very first noteworthy public-policy actions this week at City Hall, are you willing to please directly contact my own duly-elected City Council Member for District 10, Dr. Alison Alter, on my behalf?

If so, are you also willing to ask Dr. Alter to please reverse her stated policy toward me ever since March 9, 2017, of Dr. Alter refusing to accept any e-mail communications from me of any type, any letters from me of any type, any phone calls from me of any type, or any visits to her City Council office at City Hall by myself?

I maintain that the current policy that was promulgated to me by a City of Austin official on March 9, 2017, on behalf of Council Member Alter, comprises a form of allegedly illegal disenfranchisement of myself in flagrant alleged violation of my own civil rights and legal rights as a gainfully employed, permanently-drinking-alcohol-free (ever since 1990), permanently-marijuana-free (ever since 1984), anti-marijuana-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, lifelong-tobacco-free, single-by-choice, dependably civil and law-abiding and honest and vigilant District 10 resident and adult male American citizen.

I am also an American citizen who myself does not have any criminal-conviction record, and who is NOT under any form of custody by any law-enforcement agency. And, I might add, I have been a resident of Austin proper on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.

I also maintain that Council Member Alter's "direct-representation without direct-communications" policy toward me comprises an alleged possible violation of, or alleged expression of possible alleged contempt or discriminatory prejudice toward, my own Freedom of Religion Constitutional rights. I am the founder and only approved current member of a new and non-Christian fully-independent religion, the implicitly-deistic "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

City Hall officials here whom I have directly contacted by telephone about District 10 rep Alison Alter's "no calls, no letters, no visits" policy toward me, have told me that they are NOT aware of ANY OTHER Austin City Council member under the current Direct-Representation-by-District system who has himself or herself refused to accept any direct communications of any type from a person residing in their own district.

Thank you in advance, Austin City Manager Cronk, for your prompt reply note to me on this.

With your kind prior permission, I will look forward to meeting with you in person at City Hall in the near future in order to discuss public-policy-related concerns of mine that are pertinent for the City Government of Austin.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
My apartment-unit mailing address and residential address at Village Oaks Apartments ever since early September 2017: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, 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 ...
John Kevin McMillan

CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS REVEALS: SPENCER CRONK DURING HIS ENTIRE THREE-AND-ONE-HALF-YEAR TENURE AS CITY COORDINATOR FOR MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, NEVER AT ANY TIME PUBLICLY STATED WHETHER HE SUPPORTS OR OPPOSES LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA, SO-CALLED 'MEDICAL MARIJUANA', COCAINE, OR ANY OTHER ILLICIT DRUG

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 11:24 AM, Responsible Authority wrote:

Good Morning,

There is no data responsive to your request.

Your request will now be closed.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you,

Kristen L. Olson l Data Practices Coordinator l City of Minneapolis – City Clerk’s Office l Office: 612-673-3245 l kristen.olson@minneapolismn.gov

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From: City of Minneapolis [mailto:no-reply@wufoo.com]

Sent: Friday, February 02, 2018 10:50 AM

To: mcmillanj@att.net

Subject: Request Public Data

Thank you for submitting a request for government data to the City of Minneapolis. Your request has been received and assigned a tracking number: DP_18985. Please refer to this number in any correspondence related to the request.

We may contact you if we have any questions about your request or to update you on its status. Find out more about public data requests at: http://www.minneapolismn.gov/datapractices/publicdata.

Thank you for your interest.

Request public Data

Required. Briefly describe the data that you are requesting. Be as specific as possible. See our FAQs for more information. *

"a copy of the entire text of any and all public statements or speeches that Minneapolis City Coordinator Spencer Cronk has made or delivered at any time since 8 a.m. August 28, 2014, and a copy of any and all written communications that City Coordinator Cronk has sent, or that were sent on his behalf by a staff member in the City Coordinator's Office, at any time since 8 a.m. August 28, 2014, to any constituent or Minneapolis City Council member or friend of his or other person or any non-profit group or any political lobbying group or any religious group or any business or other entity, in which Mr. Cronk has stated any of the following:

"--whether Mr. Cronk supports or opposes legalization of marijuana;
"---whether Mr. Cronk supports or opposes legalization of what is often referred to as "medical marijuana", such as in a cited context;
"---whether Mr. Cronk supports or opposes legalization of one or more currently-illicit drugs other than marijuana, with cocaine being an example of one such illicit drug."

From Date
"Thursday, August 28, 2014"

To Date
"Friday, February 2, 2018"

Optional. We will determine where to search based on the type of data requested. If you believe specific people, roles, or departments may have data, identify them here.

"anyone employed in the Minneapolis City Coordinator's Office at any time since August 28, 2014, including the current City Coordinator, Mr. Spencer Cronk."

Indicate how we can contact you. The following information is optional; however, we need some way to contact you about your request.

Name
"John Kevin McMillan"

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"mcmillanj@att.net"


Other contact information
"My landline AT&T home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759."

'MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS' STATE AGENCY IN ST. PAUL ON JANUARY 31, 2018, INVITES MYSELF, JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, TO 'MEET WITH AN ATTORNEY TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE LEGAL ACTION YOU COULD TAKE AGAINST THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS'

The following, below, is the exactly quoted text (with all but two of the informational items below that are sandwiched between parentheses having been added by me for the sake of clarity in this Blog posting) of the unexpected signed official reply letter on State Government of Minnesota stationery I received in my U.S. Postal Service mailbox delivery of Feb. 5, 2018, for my rental apartment unit at the apartment complex where I reside as a rent-paying official tenant in the District 10 section of Austin, Texas.

This official reply letter to me was from the Minnesota Department of Human Rights state agency in St. Paul. The reply was in response to a courtesy carbon-copy to that State of Minnesota agency I had e-mailed to that agency on legal correspondence of mine with the City Government of Minneapolis relating to a recent public-information request of mine to that municipal government in Minnesota.

"That reply letter, below, was contained inside a metered envelope that bore the date of January 31, 2018:

"MN DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

"AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

"Freeman Building * 625 Robert Street North

* Saint Paul, MN 55155 * Tel (651) 539-1100

"MN Relay 711 or 1-800-627-3529 * 

Toll Free 1-800-657-3704 * Fax (651) 296-9042. mn.gov/mdhr

"January 31, 2018

"REF: Q103344

"John Kevin McMillan
"10926 Jollyville Road
"Bldg 16 Apt 1609
"Austin, MN (sic) 78759

"I am writing to respond to the information you submitted to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights regarding a request for information (directly referring to yourself) from Chief of Staff (John Stiles) of (Minneapolis) Mayor (Betsy) Hodges.

"The department investigates allegations of discrimination which are based on a protected class status. Protected classes covered in the area of PUBLIC SERVICE include race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, disability, public assistance, or sexual orientation.

"Reprisal for association with a person who is disabled or who is of a different race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin or reprisal for opposing a discriminatory practice is also prohibited by the Minnesota Human Rights (Act), Minnesota Statute 363A.

"Pursuant to the Act there is only a one (1) year statute of limitations, from the date of the alleged discriminatory incident, for filing a discrimination complaint with the department or in court as a private civil action.

"Based on the review of the information submitted, it does not (sic) appear that your request for information does not (sic) fall within the discriminatory practices prohibited by the Act. Based on my review of the information submitted, the department will take no further action on your request at this time. You may wish to meet with an attorney to discuss possible legal action you could take against the City of Minneapolis.

"Please contact me if you have any questions or additional information you would like considered.

"Sincerely,

"Paul Milhaupt
"Human Rights Enforcement Officer
"(651) 539-1119 (office phone)

"c:"

'TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION' STATE AGENCY REP MATEO ON JANUARY 24, 2018, AT 9:31 A.M. LEAVES AN UNEXPECTED VOICE-MAIL MESSAGE FOR PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUESTOR JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN IN REGARD TO THE AUSTIN-BASED 'TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION' (TWC) STATE AGENCY

The following voice mail message inside my private residence in northwest Austin was in apparent response to a courtesy carbon-copy provided to the "Texas Health and Human Services Commission" (THHSC) state agency by myself, public-information requestor John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas, on a January, 22, 2018, e-mail public-information request (below) that I had primarily addressed to the "Texas Workforce Commission" state agency in Austin:

"Hi, this message is for Mr. John McMillan.

"This is Mateo with the Health and Human Service with the Office of the Ombudsman.

"If you could, please call me back at 877-787-8999, and this is in regards to the issue you're having with the TWC.

"Thank you."
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The following is the January 22, 2018, public-information request of mine to the TWC state agency that prompted the above voice-mail phone message to myself from  THHSC state agency rep Mateo inside my NW Austin private residence in the District 10 section of Austin:

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...."
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/

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS ON FEB. 9, 2018, SENDS OPEN RECORDS COMPLAINT OF MINE TO TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION STATE AGENCY IN AUSTIN

On Friday, February 9, 2018 10:18 PM, John McMillan wrote:

A respectful FYI to each of you on the following (attached) copy of a legal letter of complaint that the Attorney General of Texas state agency in Austin has kindly forwarded on my behalf today (Friday, Feb. 9, 2018) to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission state agency in Austin.

My Open Records complaint had cited the Texas Health and Human Services Commission state agency's written request to me that I must pay it $738 in order to myself receive all documents or notes generated or received by that agency's Office of the Ombudsman at any time since April 17, 2011, that each referred to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

My original December 18, 2017-dated e-mail request for information from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission state agency of Texas in Austin had specified in writing, and I quote, that "I seek to obtain from your state government agency a copy of any and all written communications, including memoranda and records and written findings and letters and e-mail communications, and any and all telephone records, that were each generated or written or received or sent or forwarded or FAXed or mailed by your state agency's Office of the Ombudsman at any time since April 17, 2011, and that, in each and every such case, refers or refer at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan, a rent-paying official apartment tenant in northwest Austin."

Thank you in advance for your willingness to review this legal correspondence between one State Government of Texas agency in Austin and another in a context that refers to myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,


from public-information requestor and current Open Records complainant John Kevin McMillan.
My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, 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, February 9, 2018 3:21 PM, OpenRecordsAssistance wrote:

If you have any questions, please contact our office at (877) 673-6839.

Sincerely,


Open Records Division
Office of the Attorney General

HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL MEMBER LARRY V. GREEN ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018, SENDS VERY PROMPT E-MAIL REPLY TO CARBON-COPY HE RECEIVED FROM ME ABOUT VERY RECENT CITED APPEAL TO TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL REFERRING TO MYSELF, JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN, THAT WAS SENT ON BEHALF OF HOUSTON POLICE CHIEF ART ACEVEDO

CNL District K

To John McMillan

Today (Thursday, February 8, 2018) at 5:04 PM

Thank you for contacting the District K office by email. This is an automated reply just to let you know that it was received. We do answer our emails as soon as we can but if you haven't heard from our office in a reasonable length of time, please call us at 832-393-3016 or write me at:

Council Member Larry V. Green, Esq.
900 Bagby, 1st Floor
Houston, Tx 77002

Sincerely,

Larry V. Green, Esq.
City of Houston Council Member
District K
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On Thursday, February 8, 2018 5:04 PM, John McMillan wrote:

Dear Very Distinguished and Honorable Houston City Council Members in Houston, Texas,

I hope that the following news development relating to Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo---who previously served as my own police chief in Austin, Texas, for several consecutive years---will prove to be of interest to each of you.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

from former "Baytown (TX) Sun" full-time daily newspaper reporter John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295
My e-mail address: mcmillanj@att.net
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 ... 

On Monday, February 5, 2018 9:04 PM, John McMillan wrote:

A respectful FYI to each of you on the following news development from Houston, Texas, that directly refers to myself, public-information requestor and former Houston-area full-time daily newspaper reporter John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

On Monday, February 5, 2018 8:38 PM, John McMillan wrote:

The following (below) is the exactly quoted text of a February 1, 2018-dated, two-page signed legal letter on official City of Houston Police Department stationery that is addressed to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The current Chief of Police for the City of Houston, Art Acevedo, previously served as Chief of Police for the City of Austin from July 19, 2007, until November 29, 2016.

A designated carbon-copy of the following Feb. 1, 2018, signed legal letter from Houston PD was received by myself, public-information requestor John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin, through U.S. Postal Service mail delivery on Monday, February 5, 2018, to my cited apartment-unit mailbox at the Village Oaks Apartments complex in the City of Austin-designated District 10 section of this state-capital city.

"February 1, 2018

"Art Acevedo
"Chief of Police
"Houston Police Department

"Attention: Open Records Division
"The Honorable Ken Paxton
"Texas Attorney General
"P.O. Box 12548
"Austin, Texas 78711-2548

"Re: Public Information Act request received on January 22, 2018 from John K. McMillan requesting to obtain from your municipal law-enforcement agency in Houston, Texas, a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or public-statements or press releases or any letters to other police chiefs in other Texan or American cities, that were each written by or on behalf of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo or any staff member of his at any time since November 30, 2016, and that, in each and every such case, refers or refer at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas; ORU No. 18-00718

"Dear General Paxton:

"The Houston Police Department ("HPD") received the above-referenced request on January 22, 2018 (Exhibit 1). By copy of this letter, HPD is informing the requestor that the Department is seeking a decision from your office because HPD believes responsive information is excepted from public disclosure pursuant to sections 552.101 through 552.153 of the Government Code. We will forward responsive information and our legal arguments under separate cover shortly. Please include ORU No. 18-00718 in any future correspondence concerning this request.

"Sincerely,

"Kristie L. Lewis
"HPD Staff Attorney
"Kll:jz"

"Enclosures

"cc: John Kevin McMillan
"Village Oaks Apartment
"10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609
"Austin, Texas 78759
"Sent Via Regular Mail
"(W/o Exhibits)"
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The following is the January 20, 2018-dated e-mail public-information request of mine to the Houston Police Department that prompted the above-cited signed legal letter by that municipal law-enforcement agency in southeast Texas to the Attorney General of Texas in Austin:

On Saturday, January 20, 2018 12:06 PM, John McMillan wrote:

To: Open Records Coordinator,
Houston Police Department (HPD),
Public Affairs Division,
1200 Travis,
HPD Administration Building,
21st Floor,
Houston, TX 77002.
FAX number: 713-308-3260.

January 20, 2018

Dear Houston Police Department Open Records Coordinator,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from your municipal law-enforcement agency in Houston, Texas, a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or public-statements or press releases or any letters to other police chiefs in other Texan or American cities, that were each written by or on behalf of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo or any staff member of his at any time since November 30, 2016, and that, in each and every such case, refers or 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 written communications that were exclusively and solely written by myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

Art Acevedo, as you of course know, is a former Chief of Police for the City Government of Austin in this state capital city for Texas. Acevedo held that very influential position of leadership for Austin from July 19, 2007, until November 29, 2016.

Acevedo also previously served as a high-ranking officer of the California Highway Patrol.

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

I have resided in two respective apartments units during the period applicable to this public-information request: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, TX 78759; and, ever since early September 2017, Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759.

My home phone number throughout the entire applicable time period has been and continues to be: (512) 342-2295.

My personal E-mail address throughout the entire applicable time period has been and continues to be: mcmillanj@att.net .

I am the founder and only approved current member of a new and non-Christian religion, the Progressive Prohibitionist Religion, with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements. Numerous Americans, including at least one biological relative of mine, my older brother Dr. Michael Kim McMillan---who himself reportedly resides with his Chinese-born wife in southern California---have each indicated to me that they themselves either dislike or intensely dislike my Progressive Prohibitionist Religion, or that they do not regard it as being a true religion in their opinion.

This public-information request is prompted in part by lingering questions I myself have had in regard to what prompted then-Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo in April 2009 to reportedly ask a female assistant of his in the Chief's office in Austin, Stephanie Hernandez, to request of me on the telephone on April 28, 2009 (after she had left an initial phone message with me on my home landline phone line asking me to call her, which I did), that I myself should refrain from ever again directly contacting Austin Police Chief Acevedo.

Two years before that very surprising phone conversation I had with a female assistant to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, I received the following one total and last-ever reply letter from then-Austin Police Chief Acevedo:

From: Acevedo, Art [APD]
Subject: RE: 7-27-07 reply sought re: four criminal-law issues in Austin

To: "John McMillan"
Date: Sunday, July 29, 2007, 9:54 AM

Dear Mr. McMillan,
Thank you for your note. I expect our members to enforce violations of law as required. Reports to Council will be made consistent with past practice and statute.

Regards,
ART ACEVEDO
Chief of Police
Austin Police Department
____

This public-information request was also prompted in part by a copy of an official 2016 e-mail referring to myself that I received through a public-information request I submitted to the City of Cedar Park (TX).

The e-mail letter was written by a public official who previously had served as Assistant Chief of Police in Austin, Texas, during Art Acevedo's prior tenure as Chief of Police for Austin. That public official was Sean Mannix.

The e-mail was written and sent by Cedar Park Police Chief Sean Mannix to Leander (TX) Police Chief Greg Minton, and, apparently, to each and every one of the police officers under Chief Mannix's supervision in the Cedar Park Police Department.

The following is the exact text of that 2016 e-mail communication from Cedar Park Police Chief Mannix, with a copy of this legal document having been sent to me by Cedar Park City Secretary Quinn, in response to an August 13, 2016 e-mail public-information request from myself:

"From: Sean Mannix

"Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 5:43 PM

"To: (Cedar Park) PD General Inbox; 'Leander Police Chief Minton'

"Subject: RE: 5-22-16 urgent note to Ms. Black at SafePlace Austin

"FYI,

"This poor guy is 10-96 and believes that somebody enters his locked apartment on a nightly basis and sexually assaults him in his sleep. This has been going on for over six years and he continuously emails police officials, politicians, news organizations, prosecutors, etc.

"APD's CIT folks are very familiar with him. Any reply to Mr. McMillan will add you to his list of folks to correspond with.

"Sean"
_______

I hope to hear from you soon in response to this public-information request from myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,


John Kevin McMillan,
Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda

EX-APD CHIEF ART ACEVEDO IN HIS CURRENT ROLE WITH HOUSTON POLICE ON FEB. 1, 2018, APPEALS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS IN REGARD TO MYSELF, GAINFULLY EMPLOYED PRIVATE CITIZEN JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN

On Monday, February 5, 2018 8:38 PM, John McMillan wrote:

The following (below) is the exactly quoted text of a February 1, 2018-dated, two-page signed legal letter on official City of Houston Police Department stationery that is addressed to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The current Chief of Police for the City of Houston, Art Acevedo, previously served as Chief of Police for the City of Austin from July 19, 2007, until November 29, 2016.

A designated carbon-copy of the following Feb. 1, 2018, signed legal letter from Houston PD was received by myself, public-information requestor John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin, through U.S. Postal Service mail delivery on Monday, February 5, 2018, to my cited apartment-unit mailbox at the Village Oaks Apartments complex in the City of Austin-designated District 10 section of this state-capital city.

"February 1, 2018

"Art Acevedo
"Chief of Police
"Houston Police Department

"Attention: Open Records Division
"The Honorable Ken Paxton
"Texas Attorney General
"P.O. Box 12548
"Austin, Texas 78711-2548

"Re: Public Information Act request received on January 22, 2018 from John K. McMillan requesting to obtain from your municipal law-enforcement agency in Houston, Texas, a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or public-statements or press releases or any letters to other police chiefs in other Texan or American cities, that were each written by or on behalf of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo or any staff member of his at any time since November 30, 2016, and that, in each and every such case, refers or refer at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas; ORU No. 18-00718

"Dear General Paxton:

"The Houston Police Department ("HPD") received the above-referenced request on January 22, 2018 (Exhibit 1). By copy of this letter, HPD is informing the requestor that the Department is seeking a decision from your office because HPD believes responsive information is excepted from public disclosure pursuant to sections 552.101 through 552.153 of the Government Code. We will forward responsive information and our legal arguments under separate cover shortly. Please include ORU No. 18-00718 in any future correspondence concerning this request.

"Sincerely,

"Kristie L. Lewis
"HPD Staff Attorney

"Kll:jz"

"Enclosures

"cc: John Kevin McMillan
"Village Oaks Apartment
"10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609
"Austin, Texas 78759
"Sent Via Regular Mail
"(W/o Exhibits)"
____
The following is the January 20, 2018-dated e-mail public-information request of mine to the Houston Police Department that prompted the above-cited signed legal letter by that municipal law-enforcement agency in southeast Texas to the Attorney General of Texas in Austin:

On Saturday, January 20, 2018 12:06 PM, John McMillan wrote:

To: Open Records Coordinator,
Houston Police Department (HPD),
Public Affairs Division,
1200 Travis,
HPD Administration Building,
21st Floor,
Houston, TX 77002.
FAX number: 713-308-3260.

January 20, 2018

Dear Houston Police Department Open Records Coordinator,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from your municipal law-enforcement agency in Houston, Texas, a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or public-statements or press releases or any letters to other police chiefs in other Texan or American cities, that were each written by or on behalf of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo or any staff member of his at any time since November 30, 2016, and that, in each and every such case, refers or 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 written communications that were exclusively and solely written by myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

Art Acevedo, as you of course know, is a former Chief of Police for the City Government of Austin in this state capital city for Texas. Acevedo held that very influential position of leadership for Austin from July 19, 2007, until November 29, 2016.

Acevedo also previously served as a high-ranking officer of the California Highway Patrol.

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

I have resided in two respective apartments units during the period applicable to this public-information request: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, TX 78759; and, ever since early September 2017, Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759.

My home phone number throughout the entire applicable time period has been and continues to be: (512) 342-2295.

My personal E-mail address throughout the entire applicable time period has been and continues to be: mcmillanj@att.net .

I am the founder and only approved current member of a new and non-Christian religion, the Progressive Prohibitionist Religion, with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements. Numerous Americans, including at least one biological relative of mine, my older brother Dr. Michael Kim McMillan---who himself reportedly resides with his Chinese-born wife in southern California---have each indicated to me that they themselves either dislike or intensely dislike my Progressive Prohibitionist Religion, or that they do not regard it as being a true religion in their opinion.

This public-information request is prompted in part by lingering questions I myself have had in regard to what prompted then-Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo in April 2009 to reportedly ask a female assistant of his in the Chief's office in Austin, Stephanie Hernandez, to request of me on the telephone on April 28, 2009 (after she had left an initial phone message with me on my home landline phone line asking me to call her, which I did), that I myself should refrain from ever again directly contacting Austin Police Chief Acevedo.

Two years before that very surprising phone conversation I had with a female assistant to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, I received the following one total and last-ever reply letter from then-Austin Police Chief Acevedo:

From: Acevedo, Art [APD]
Subject: RE: 7-27-07 reply sought re: four criminal-law issues in Austin

To: "John McMillan"
Date: Sunday, July 29, 2007, 9:54 AM

Dear Mr. McMillan,
Thank you for your note. I expect our members to enforce violations of law as required. Reports to Council will be made consistent with past practice and statute.

Regards,
ART ACEVEDO
Chief of Police
Austin Police Department
____

This public-information request was also prompted in part by a copy of an official 2016 e-mail referring to myself that I received through a public-information request I submitted to the City of Cedar Park (TX).

The e-mail letter was written by a public official who previously had served as Assistant Chief of Police in Austin, Texas, during Art Acevedo's prior tenure as Chief of Police for Austin. That public official was Sean Mannix.

The e-mail was written and sent by Cedar Park Police Chief Sean Mannix to Leander (TX) Police Chief Greg Minton, and, apparently, to each and every one of the police officers under Chief Mannix's supervision in the Cedar Park Police Department.

The following is the exact text of that 2016 e-mail communication from Cedar Park Police Chief Mannix, with a copy of this legal document having been sent to me by Cedar Park City Secretary Quinn, in response to an August 13, 2016 e-mail public-information request from myself:

"From: Sean Mannix

"Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 5:43 PM

"To: (Cedar Park) PD General Inbox; 'Leander Police Chief Minton'

"Subject: RE: 5-22-16 urgent note to Ms. Black at SafePlace Austin

"FYI,

"This poor guy is 10-96 and believes that somebody enters his locked apartment on a nightly basis and sexually assaults him in his sleep. This has been going on for over six years and he continuously emails police officials, politicians, news organizations, prosecutors, etc.

"APD's CIT folks are very familiar with him. Any reply to Mr. McMillan will add you to his list of folks to correspond with.

"Sean"
_______

I hope to hear from you soon in response to this public-information request from myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan,
Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda


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