Wednesday, September 23, 2020

MY PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST TODAY TO THE AUSTIN-BASED TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (TxDOT), WITH MY FOCUS BEING ON TxDOT PEACE OFFICERS IN TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, AND ME

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 02:20:44 AM CDT
Subject: 9-23-20 PIR re: TxDOT peace officers in Travis County and me

To: Open Records Coordinator,
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT),
125 East 11th Street,
Austin, TX 78701
Main phone number: (512) 463-8588.

September 23, 2020

Dear TxDOT Open Records Coordinator,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from you a copy of any and all written communications---including any applicable e-mail communications and reports---referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that respective certified peace officers employed anywhere in Travis County, Texas, by your state agency's Security Operations unit or Public Transportation unit, received or wrote or sent or mailed or FAXed or forwarded at any time since 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011.

According to your state agency's official website, local office phone numbers for your Security Operations unit in Austin are: (512) 465-7931 and (512) 465-7357.  The main phone number for your Austin-based Public Transportation unit is: (512) 374-5230.

My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I am a native of Lincoln, Nebraska; I was born there on April 27, 1957.

I am a former Salutatorian of Stephen F. Austin High School of Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas. I am an alumnus of The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Minnesota Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communications in Minneapolis, respectively.

I have resided in Austin proper ever since mid-March 1997, during which time I have been employed by a variety of reputable employers, including the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles state agencies.

One very polite female staff member in the Classics Department at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, commented to me around the turn of the century during a long-distance phone call I made at my own financial expense to her academic department at Harvard from Austin, Texas: "I've heard that the driving conditions for motorists in Austin, Texas, are very hazardous."

I myself sold an automobile I owned here in Austin earlier this century and since that time have relied on commuting by foot (walking) and Capital Metro bus service as my primary modes of transportation in Austin.

One first-rate employee of your state agency, Richard Goldsmith----himself a former work supervisor of mine at a newspaper in El Campo, Texas, the "El Campo Leader-News", in 1988 and 1989----candidly stated to me on the telephone in 1997 from his state agency office in Austin: "You can stay in Austin for as long as you want and attempt to develop a social life for yourself in Austin, for all the good it would do you. I (Richard Goldsmith) know how Austin is." (approximate quote, with the phrases "for all the good it would do you" and "I know how Austin is" being exact quotes.)

Jim Frazier, a Huntsville-based staff attorney for a state agency former full-time employer of mine in Austin, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, volunteered to me on the telephone earlier this century during a long-distance phone call I made to his public law office from my rental-apartment unit private residence at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin: "The people of Austin have not been friendly toward you, John! I recommend that you purchase a home in Huntsville and move to this east Texas city, where the residents will be much friendlier toward you" (approximate quote).

One official for the Travis County Clerk's Office of Travis County Government, David Ferris, himself the Travis County Civil Probate Division Director in downtown Austin at the time, stated to me on the telephone in August 2001, shortly after I moved into an apartment unit in northwest Austin from the UT campus area apartment unit where I had resided as a rent-paying official tenant for several years: "There appears to be an attempt by numerous persons to drive you (John Kevin McMillan) out of the Austin area."

During the nine-and-one-third-year period applicable to this public-information request, I have resided at the following locations as a rent-paying official tenant or rent-paying occupant (the latter status having occurred during a multi-month period in 2016 at a time when I was residing with one male adult roommate in the two-bedroom Apartment 902 at the Northland-owned and Northland-managed Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road in Austin, and that male roommate of mine while sharing the same apartment with me landed a job with the Newton, Massachusetts-based Northland Investment Corporation to himself work at another Northland complex in Austin while continuing to room with me in Apt. 902 in what suddenly turned into an "employee apartment" with an accompanying new lease-agreement contract being issued for our apartment unit in which no signature from me was needed for that new "employee apartment" lease agreement, according to a female member of the management team for Village Oaks who orally assured me in person inside their management team office in northwest Austin that I was permitted by them to remain in Apartment 902 as an approved "occupant", with it being strictly up to my roommate, Brett Andrew Meyer, whether I was myself expected to pay any portion of the overall rent for that unit under that new lease agreement, that female apartment manager said), listed chronologically from oldest address for me to most recent address: 

---Wind River Crossing Apartments, 11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, TX 78759; 

---Crossland Economy Studios, 12621 Hymeadow Road, Apt. 133, Austin, TX 78729; 

---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 902, Austin, TX 78759;

---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759;

---Austin Motor Inn, 11400 North Interstate Highway 35, a first-floor room, Austin, TX 78753; and

---Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Bldg. 17, Austin, TX 78753.


When Austin Independent School District (AISD) classes are being held, my current apartment complex in northeast Austin, Pebble Creek Apartments, 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 that individual's own medical health or that is aimed at punishing him or her for having political or religious or personal beliefs---or personal prejudices, even---that are disliked or opposed by the perpetrators or sponsors of that noise pollution.

Numerous current or former Central Texas residents have stated to me over a multi-year period that they either dislike or intensely dislike or question the authenticity of my own fully-independent "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion" (PPR). It is an implicitly-deistic, non-atheistic, factually-minded, quality-of-life-oriented religion. 

Around the turn of the century I gave several televised speeches on behalf of that religion of mine on local Community Access Television in Austin. One younger Central Texan man left a violent-sounding and obscene and violent-sounding anonymous recorded phone message on my telephone-answering machine inside my apartment near UT-Austin---a recorded phone message in which he volunteered that he himself is "Catholic". In his recorded message to me, he stated that he was reacting to one or more locally televised speeches of mine that I gave on behalf of my PPR religion.

One former resident of the Travis County, Texas, Dr. Michael Kim McMillan, emphatically stated to me in person along Guadalupe Street near UT-Austin around the turn of the century, with indignation, dismay, and revulsion in his tone of voice and facial expression, during a visit of his to the Austin area from out of state: "The 'Heaven on Earth' religion you've (John Kevin McMillan) established inflicts Hell on this entire planet!"

Thank you in advance for your written response providing me with any and all documents responsive to this public-information request from myself. I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, requestor.
My solo-occupancy efficiency-apartment rental-home address ever since June 21, 2019:
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

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