DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL FOR THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS STATE AGENCY IN AUSTIN RECEIVES A JANUARY 8, 2019-DATED REPLY LETTER FROM MYSELF AS A PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUESTOR

From: John McMillan

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Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 5:33:56 PM CST

Subject: Re: 1-3-19 PIR re: TDHCA General Counsel and me

To: Mr. Jeffrey T. Pender,
Deputy General Counsel,
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) state agency,
221 E. 11th Street,
Austin, TX 78701
Office Phone: (512) 475-4752
Fax:512.469-9606

January 8, 2019

Dear TDHCA Deputy General Counsel Pender in Austin,

Thank you for your e-mail reply letter to me today in response to my January 3, 2019, e-mail public-information request (last item, below) to your State Government of Texas agency.

In answer to your written request of me today, I as the requestor am not willing to give you permission to withhold from me recent legal documents involving "attorney-client communications" about me that may be on file with your TDHCA General Counsel's Office.

I will look forward to receiving a courtesy carbon-copy of your official written request for an Open Records ruling from the Attorney General of Texas on the legal documents you seek to withhold from me.

Thank you again for your reply letter. I hope to hear from you soon.


Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, current public-information requestor.
Home address: Village Oaks Apts., 10926 Jollyville Rd., Bldg. 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
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On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 9:14:07 AM CST, Jeff Pender wrote:

Dear Mr. McMillan:

Thank you for your public information request. Some of the information you are requesting may be protected by the attorney-client privilege. The Public Information Act permits the Department to initially withhold such privileged information, but only with your prior written permission. Accordingly, I am requesting that you allow me to redact or withhold any attorney-client communications we may come across while searching for information responsive to your request. If not, it is the agency’s practice to send the information to the Attorney General for a decision on whether we may withhold it. That process takes about 70 calendar days. We will of course produce to you promptly any other responsive documents that don’t contain attorney-client privileged information.

If you have any questions feel free to call. Please let me know what you want to do at your earliest convenience.

Thanks,

Jeffrey T. Pender
Deputy General Counsel
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
221 E. 11th Street | Austin, TX 78701
Office: 512.475.4752
Fax:512.469-9606


About TDHCA
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs administers a number of state and federal programs through for-profit, nonprofit, and local government partnerships to strengthen communities through affordable housing development, home ownership opportunities, weatherization, and community-based services for Texans in need. For more information, including current funding opportunities and information on local providers, please visit www.tdhca.state.tx.us.


NOTICE: All work-related electronic communications with me must be directed to this work email address or to my work phone or fax number listed above. Work-related texts, calls, emails or other electronic communications directed to my personal communications accounts and devices are strictly prohibited and will not be acknowledged or returned.
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From: John McMillan  

Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 10:08 PM

To: Open Records ; Gina Hinojosa ; Kirk Watson ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; Gerald Daugherty ; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office)

Subject: 1-3-19 PIR re: TDHCA General Counsel and m

January 3, 2019


Dear Open Records Officials for the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) state agency in Austin,


This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from you a copy of any and all e-mail letters referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas, that were each received, sent, forwarded, or written at any time since January 1, 2016, by the chief attorney for your state agency or any staff member or attorney directly supervised by that chief attorney inside the Office of General Counsel for your state agency.


Excluded from the scope of this public-information request are any and all e-mail letters that were exclusively and solely written by myself.


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


My personal e-mail address has remained the same throughout the entire three-year period applicable to this public-information request. That e-mail address for me is: mcmillanj@att.net .

My respective home addresses during the period ever since January 1, 2016, have been: 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 902, Austin, TX, 78759;

and, ever since early September 2017, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.


Thank you in advance for your helpful reply letter to me on this.


Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan,
Home address: 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net