Thursday, September 24, 2020

THE FOLLOW-UP LETTER OF CLARIFICATION THAT I WROTE AND SENT TODAY TO TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STATE AGENCY DIRECTOR STEVEN McCRAW OF THE AUSTIN AREA:

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Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020, 12:02:34 PM CDT
Subject: Fw: 8-13-20 PIR to DPS re: Capitol Complex DPS officers and me

September 24, 2020

Dear Texas Department of Public Safety Director McCraw,

Please note the following correction to the text of the second paragraph of my August 13, 2020, public-information request---a correction that I had submitted in writing (below) on August 31, 2020, to the Office of General Counsel for your state agency in Austin. 

I hope this clarification I was reminded this morning that I had made will be helpful to you and your staff:

"INCLUDED in the scope of this request are any and all e-mail communications or reports referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that your Capitol Region Headquarters Regional Director during the applicable  nine and one-half-year time period ever on any occasion wrote or sent to, or received from, his immediate supervisor---the Deputy Director of Law Enforcement Operations for the Department of Public Safety."

Colonel McCraw, thank you for your patience and understanding in regard to this one total paragraph substitution I have made to the text of my August 13, 2020, public-information request (final item, below, reflects that revision) to your state agency.

I hope to hear from you soon in regard to my revised August 13, 2020, public-information request to your state agency's Office of General Counsel that they have not replied to in any manner so far.

Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, requestor.
8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.


John Kevin McMillan


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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
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Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020, 08:45:51 PM CDT
Subject: Re: 8-13-20 PIR to DPS re: Capitol Complex DPS officers and me

August 31, 2020

Dear Open Records Administrator for the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency headquarters in Austin,

This is a friendly reminder from a former full-time employee of your state agency in Austin, myself, that if I don't receive a reply from you by Thursday morning, September 3, in response to my August 13 public-information request (below), I will have no choice but to myself file a civilly-worded written legal complaint against your state agency with the Attorney General of Texas Open Records Division.

Incidentally, I would like to take this opportunity to offer you a corrected, clarified, and revised version of the entire second paragraph (below) of my August 13 public-information request:

"INCLUDED in the scope of this request are any and all e-mail communications or reports referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that your Capitol Region Headquarters Regional Director during the applicable nine and one-half-year time period ever on any occasion wrote or sent to, or received from, his immediate supervisor---the Deputy Director of Law Enforcement Operations for the Department of Public Safety."

Please note that I have also substituted that revised and corrected version of my second paragraph in the text of the full public-information request below. Please disregard the second paragraph of the original public-information request on this that I sent you on August 13, 2020.

Thank you in advance for your prompt reply letter to me on this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.
My solo-occupancy efficiency-rental-apartment-unit home address ever since June 21, 2019: 
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295


John Kevin McMillan


On Thursday, August 13, 2020, 03:24:19 PM CDT, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:


From: John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.
My home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net

August 13, 2020

Texas Department of Public Safety,
Open Records,
5805 North Lamar Boulevard,
Austin, TX 78752
Office phone: (512) 424-2000
FAX: 512-424-5716.
E-mail address: OGC.Webmaster@dps.texas.gov

Dear Open Records Coordinator for the Texas Department of Public Safety,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from your state-government law-enforcement agency in Austin a copy of any and all e-mail communications or reports referring to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, at least once in any manner, and that were written, e-mailed, sent, mailed, received, or FAXed at any time since 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011, by any certified peace officer or law-enforcement officer or administrator based at the Texas DPS Capitol Complex, Capitol Region Headquarters, with your Regional Director who directly supervises your Capitol Region Headquarters being one such applicable DPS administrative official.

INCLUDED in the scope of this request are any and all e-mail communications or reports referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that your Capitol Region Headquarters Regional Director during the applicable  nine and one-half-year time period ever on any occasion wrote or sent to, or received from, his immediate supervisor---the Deputy Director of Law Enforcement Operations for the Department of Public Safety.

My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I was born on April 27, 1957.

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 state law-enforcement agency. I was employed full-time in your DPS Motor Carrier Bureau along Guadalupe Street for one year in the late 1990s.

My primary personal e-mail address of "mcmillanj@att.net" and my primary personal phone number of "512-342-2295" have remained the same throughout the entire nine-year period applicable to this public-information request.

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.

During the nine-and-one-third-year period applicable to this public-information request, I have resided at the following locations, 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.

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). 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 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.

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