Wednesday, July 29, 2020

AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, SENDS ME A POLITE REPLY LETTER ON JULY 29, 2020


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Trustees
To: John McMillan
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 08:15:35 PM CDT
Subject: Re: 7-8-20 AISD PIR re: AISD Police and me

Hello,

Thank you for your correspondence to the AISD Board of Trustees. Your email has been forwarded to the Board of Trustees as well as to the appropriate district administrator.

Respectfully,

Terrie Reyes-Kitch
Executive Assistant, 
AISD Board of Trustees
4000 S IH 35 Frontage Rd
Austin, TX 78704 
512 414-2413
terrie.reyes-kitch@austinisd.org

FYI:   Please note that from Monday, June 8, through Friday, August 7, Austin ISD will operate on its summer efficiency schedule, 7 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday with all district facilities closed on Fridays. The District will be closed the week of July 6-July 10, 2020. AISD returns to its five-day operations schedule on Monday, August 10, 2020. 

The first day of school is currently scheduled for Tuesday, August 18, 2020.



From: John McMillan
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:07 PM
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Subject: Re: 7-8-20 AISD PIR re: AISD Police and me

July 29, 2020
Dear Open Records Coordinator Melissa Sabatino for the  Austin Independent School District (AISD),

Thank you for your final reply you sent me today in direct response to my July 8, 2020-dated public-information request (below) that was specifically addressed to your public school district in Austin, Texas.

Ms. Sabatino, I was very surprised to read your statement in your reply to me today that you do not have on file any specific job description delineating each and every one of the specific and apparently very distinctive assigned job duties that AISD "Commander of Special Operations" Lt. Gustavo Barrera reportedly holds in that high-ranking and out-of-the-ordinary role of his for Austin Independent School District.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you ever do identify any such specific job duties description that specifically refers to Lt. Barrera's role as "Special Operations Manager" for the Austin Independent School District.

Best Wishes,

public-information requestor and former Stephen F. Austin High School Salutatorian John Kevin McMillan.
Home address: Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Building 17, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

John Kevin McMillan


On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 09:58:35 AM CDT, Open Records wrote:


Austin ISD has received your information request and is responding via this email.

Pursuant to governmental action regarding COVID-19, Austin ISD has closed its physical locations for the purpose of public health/pandemic response and is operating with a skeleton crew from March 23, 2020 until further notice. We are attempting to complete requests as we can, but some records requests will be processed when the district reopens for business.

Please see guidance from the Texas Attorney General regarding the calculation of business days during closures related to COVID-19:

Request:

1) This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from you a copy of any and all  e-mail communications or reports or other written communications that your AISD Police Department "Special Operations Commander" has received or produced or sent or e-mailed or mailed or forwarded or FAXed at any time since 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011, and that, in each such case, referred at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

2) Also included in the scope of this public-information request is a copy of the currently applicable job description for the AISD Police Department "Special Operations Commander".

According to your school district's official website, the current Special Operations Commander for your public school district's police department is Lt. Gustavo Barrera. His office phone number: (512) 414-1123.

Response:
1)  Austin ISD maintains no documents responsive to this portion of your request.  

2)  The Lieutenant Job description responsive to your request are attached.  Please note there is no job description for “Special Operations Commander”- this assignment is given to a ranked officer. 


Melissa Sabatino
Administrative Supervisor, Public Information and Strategic Programs 

Office of the Superintendent

512-414-2412

512-414-1486 (fax)




FYI:   Please note that from Monday, June 8, through Friday, August 7, Austin ISD will operate on its summer efficiency schedule, 7 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday with all district facilities closed on Fridays. The District will be closed the week of July 6-July 10, 2020. AISD returns to its five-day operations schedule on Monday, August 10, 2020. 



The first day of school is currently scheduled for Tuesday, August 18, 2020.

From: John McMillan
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:21 PM
To: Open Records
Subject: 7-8-20 AISD PIR re: AISD Police and me

To: Open Records Coordinator,
Office of the Superintendent, 
Austin Independent School District,
4000 S. IH 35 Frontage Road
Austin, TX 78704
Main AISD office phone: (512) 414-1700
FAX: 512-414-1486

July 8, 2020

Dear AISD Open Records Coordinator,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from you a copy of any and all 
e-mail communications or reports or other written communications that your AISD Police Department "Special Operations Commander" has received or produced or sent or e-mailed or mailed or forwarded or FAXed at any time since 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011, and that, in each such case, referred at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

Also included in the scope of this public-information request is a copy of the currently applicable job description for the AISD Police Department "Special Operations Commander".

According to your school district's official website, the current Special Operations Commander for your public school district's police department is Lt. Gustavo Barrera. His office phone number: (512) 414-1123.

My date of birth is April 27, 1957. I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. 

I was Salutatorian of the Class of 1975 at Stephen F. Austin High School of Austin Independent School District. I have a Master's Degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and I have a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

I reside alone as a rent-paying official tenant inside a solo-occupancy always-fully-bolt-locked and always-fully-locked efficiency rental-apartment unit at a large gated-community apartment complex, Pebble Creek Apartments at 8805 North Plaza Drive in north Austin.

When AISD classes are being held, my current apartment complex is serviced on schoolday mornings by AISD buses and AISD bus drivers.

I am the founder and only approved current member of a new and non-Christian non-proselytizing "Honor Society" religion, the anti-marijuana, anti-medical-marijuana, anti-illicit-drugs, anti-tobacco, anti-drinking-alcohol, anti-tattoos, anti-profanity-minded, anti-facial-hair-minded  "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", that has very stringent membership-eligibility requirements. 

That one total religion of mine opposes home-invasion crimes, opposes personal-injury-crimes, opposes sexual assault crimes, opposes the sex crime of pederasty, opposes the infliction of profanity or obscene speech on anyone in a context that violates their own privacy rights, opposes anonymous communications that violate the privacy of the person being subjected to those communications, opposes fraudulent or knowingly dishonest communications, opposes thought-control projects, opposes so-called "deprogramming" projects, opposes kidnappings, opposes hostage-takings, opposes compelled speech that violates the privacy rights of the individual being subjected to that compelled speech against his wishes, and opposes deliberate  infliction of continuous noise pollution on anyone in a context that harms their own medical health or that is aimed at punishing them for having political or religious or personal beliefs---or personal prejudices, even---that are disliked or opposed by the perpetrators of that noise pollution.

Numerous Austin residents have stated to me over a multi-year period that they either dislike or intensely dislike my own fully-independent "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an implicitly-deistic, non-atheistic factually-minded religion on behalf of which around the turn of the century I gave several televised speeches on local Community Access Television here in Austin.

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

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, requestor.
Home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Bldg. 17, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.




John Kevin McMillan
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