Friday, December 6, 2019

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES STATE AGENCY IN AUSTIN ON DECEMBER 6, 2019, REFERS ME TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS STATE AGENCY FOR ASSISTANCE ON RAPE PREVENTION IN MY OWN LIFE IN THIS STATE-CAPITAL CITY FOR TEXAS


From: DSHS TitleV
To: John McMillan
Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019, 01:18:46 PM CST
Subject: RE: 11-30-19 urgent question to Title V Sexual Violence Prevention Administrator

Good Afternoon Mr. McMillan;

Thank you for contacting the Texas Department of State Health Services’ Maternal and Child Health Unit. Our Rape Prevention and Education program, funded through a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/rpe/), promotes the implementation and evaluation of programs, practices, and policies based on the best available evidence to prevent sexual violence. At this time, we work within communities across Texas to educate 6th grade through college-age adolescents to:
  • Promote social norms that protect against violence
  • Teach skills to prevent sexual violence
  • Provide opportunities to empower and support girls and women
  • Create protective environments

Since this program focuses on preventing sexual violence among children and adolescents, it does not provide the services you are looking for.

You may want to reach out to the Office of the Attorney General of Texas’ Crime Victims Unit for additional information and assistance. 


Carol Harvey
On behalf of Maternal & Child Health
DSHS
512-776-7373
Texas Department of State Health Services

From: John McMillan  
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 1:57 AM
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Subject: 11-30-19 urgent question to Title V Sexual Violence Prevention Administrator

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To: Texas Department of State Health Services
Maternal & Child Health
PO Box 149347, Mail Code 1922
Austin, TX 78714-9347
(512) 776-7373: Phone
(512) 458-7658: Fax
TitleV@dshs.texas.gov

November 30, 2019

Dear Title V Administrator of the federally-funded "Sexual Violence Prevention" program at the Texas Department of State Health Services state agency in Austin,

I appreciate having read this week for the first time (see above link to your official webpage) about the life-saving federally-funded program you offer for prevention of sexual violence in Texas.

I myself am 62 years old at present, and I am a longtime celibate-by-choice, single-by-choice, permanently-drinking-alcohol-free, permanently-illicit-drug-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, dependably civil and law-abiding and honest Anglo adult gentleman of English, Scottish, and German ancestry. I am gainfully employed in the restaurant industry here in Austin.

Is there any context in which the Sexual Violence Prevention program that your state agency provides Texans can also offer full and year-round protection for myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, from any current or future risk of alleged personal-injury-crimes perpetrators and alleged sex crimes perpetrators and alleged home-invasion crimes perpetrators allegedly victimizing me during my sleeping hours as I lie alone, asleep and unconscious and probably also snoring, in the bedroom of my bolt-locked current solo-occupancy rental-apartment unit?

I would also like to find out whether your Title V-funded Sexual Violence Prevention program at your state agency in Austin also provides funding and authorization for DNA-trace rape-evidence exams on a cited victim of alleged continuous and continuing sexual assault crimes allegedly being inflicted on that victim during periods in which he or she is held unconscious throughout each of the alleged sexual assaults? 

If so, is your state agency in Austin also willing to request full 190-day or full 180-day retroactive DNA-tracing on cases of individuals (myself, for instance) who appear to have been victimized by alleged continuous daily and year-round sex crimes during their own sleeping hours inside their own rental apartment unit?

I am posing this second question to your state agency because the Austin Police Department  has declined to officially authorize any DNA-trace rape-evidence exam on myself that I have requested, on any occasion in more than eight years. 

This year, calendar year 2019, both the APD Sex Crimes Unit and the Austin SAFE Alliance non-profit group (which, in the latter case, holds apparent quasi-governmental authority in regard to who gets DNA-trace rape-evidence exams in Austin) have denied each of my requests for a rape-evidence exam. I might add that two emergency room physicians in Austin have each this year chosen not to request a rape-evidence exam on myself that I had politely requested during that visit to their respective hospitals' emergency rooms.

I am always hopeful that Austin Police Chief Brian Manley will ask his APD Sex Crimes Unit to please authorize for me in 2019 my first-ever DNA-trace rape-evidence exam in more than eight years, with an emphasis on full retroactive DNA-traces processing for the most recent 190-day or 180-day period on that proposed new rape kit from myself.

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

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

from longtime criminal-law complainant and self-identified sexual-assault-crimes victim John Kevin McMillan.
Home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apartment 2418 (a second-floor, eastward-facing efficiency unit in Building 17, which is itself situated near the northeastern corner of this very large commercial-real-estate apartment complex), Austin, Texas, 78753.
Phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
and, through my new cell phone service with AT&T,

John Kevin McMillan

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