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Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 05:41:12 PM CST
Subject: OAG seeks to withhold attorney docs re: my current OAG Open Records complaint vs TX DPS Office of Genl Counsel
From: John Kevin McMillan, current public-information requestor and current Open Records complainant.
My solo-occupancy efficiency rental-apartment unit home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments (a Belco Equities-affiliated gated-community complex), 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295. My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
November 3, 2020 (Election Day).
A respectful FYI to each of you on the very surprising e-mail reply letter and attached legal documents I received today (final items, below) from the Attorney General of Texas (OAG) here in Austin on an October 26, 2020, public-information request of mine to the OAG. That public-information-request of mine has been assigned by OAG an official ID number of R007038-102620.
My cited public-information request, as directly acknowledged to me by the OAG through an e-mail reply letter I received from the OAG on October 26, 2020, is: "Records Requested: All written communications produced or received by the OAG that refer to either or both of the two current respective Open Records complaints against the Texas Department of Public Safety state agency that on or about October 1, 2020, I (John Kevin McMillan of Austin) filed online, and through accompanying e-mails. Included in the scope of this request are any and all OAG-generated ID numbers assigned to each of those two respective Open Records complaints from me against the DPS, and each OAG legal letter to the Texas DPS that referred to either complaint from me."
Today's OAG reply e-mail letter and OAG attachments (see final items, below) each refer to the Texas OAG seeking an official ruling from an attorney in the Texas Attorney General's Office Open Records Division on cited documents responsive to the above-cited October 26-received public-information request of mine to the OAG.
The Attorney General of Texas Open Records Division (see attachments, below) is currently seeking to withhold from me copies of recent OAG-generated communications referring to me that involve OAG attorneys.
I had submitted my October 26, 2020, Open Records request (ORR) to the OAG after the OAG over a multi-week period had failed to provide me --- for each of my two current Open Records complaints against the Texas DPS Office of General Counsel here in Austin --- with either an official Open Records complaint identification number (as OAG on its own initiative routinely has done for me in recent years on Open Records complaints of mine) or a carbon-copy of an OAG letter informing the cited state-government agency about my most recent Open Records complaint against the latter state agency.
The first few paragraphs of each of two cited separate respective 2020-dated Open Records requests of mine to the DPS in regard to which the DPS Office of General Counsel in each case chose over a multi-month to not send me ANY reply note of any type even after I directly sent the DPS OGC several polite reminder e-mail notes (one of which offered a spring of 2020 correction and clarification to the first paragraph of my February 21, 2020, PIR in regard to the DPS Texas Rangers Division and me), are as follows:
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"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
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...."
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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
To: OGC.Webmaster@dps.texas.gov <ogc.webmaster@dps.texas.gov>; (and numerous other cited recipients).
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020, 01:50:28 AM CST
Subject: 2-20-20 PIR: TX Rangers surveillance photos inside my current apt. bedroom
From: John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.
My home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apartment 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
"February 21, 2020
"Texas Department of Public Safety,
Open Records,
5805 North Lamar Boulevard,
Austin, TX 78752
Office phone: (512) 424-2000
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 you copies of 10 separate very recent photo images that I myself had e-mailed to your state-law enforcement agency's Texas Rangers Division during the multi-month period from December 21, 2019, through the present, and that each appear to contain an image of someone other than myself apparently having been physically present inside the bedroom of my current solo-occupancy and always-bolt-locked and fully-secured efficiency apartment unit in north Austin...."
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: TEXAS AG Public Information <texasag@govqa.us>
To: mcmillanj@att.net <mcmillanj@att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 01:38:46 PM CST
Subject: [Records Center] Public Information Request :: R007038-102620
Attachments:
15day(R007038).pdf
R007038_Redacted.pdf
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November 3, 2020
Mr. John McMillan
mcmillanj@att.net
VIA E-MAIL ONLY
Re: Public Information Request No. R007038
Dear Mr. McMillan:
This e-mail is in response to your public information request to the Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”), received by the OAG on October 26, 2020.
The OAG has reviewed its files and has located the attached documents that are responsive to your request. Although the Public Information Act allows a governmental body to charge for copying documents, the attached documents are being provided to you at no charge.
Please note the OAG has redacted personal e-mail addresses from the attached documents pursuant to section 552.137 of the Government Code and the previous determination issued by the Open Records Division. See Open Records Decision No. 684 (2009) (governmental bodies may withhold certain information without necessity of requesting decision from Open Records Division).
The OAG believes the remaining responsive information is excepted from required public disclosure. In accordance with section 552.301 of the Government Code, the OAG has requested a ruling from the Open Records Division. A copy of the OAG’s arguments against disclosure is attached.
If you have any questions, please contact me at publicrecords@oag.texas.gov.
Sincerely,
Marisol Bernal-Leon
Public Information Coordinator’s Office
Office of the Attorney General
Mr. John McMillan
mcmillanj@att.net
VIA E-MAIL ONLY
Re: Public Information Request No. R007038
Dear Mr. McMillan:
This e-mail is in response to your public information request to the Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”), received by the OAG on October 26, 2020.
The OAG has reviewed its files and has located the attached documents that are responsive to your request. Although the Public Information Act allows a governmental body to charge for copying documents, the attached documents are being provided to you at no charge.
Please note the OAG has redacted personal e-mail addresses from the attached documents pursuant to section 552.137 of the Government Code and the previous determination issued by the Open Records Division. See Open Records Decision No. 684 (2009) (governmental bodies may withhold certain information without necessity of requesting decision from Open Records Division).
The OAG believes the remaining responsive information is excepted from required public disclosure. In accordance with section 552.301 of the Government Code, the OAG has requested a ruling from the Open Records Division. A copy of the OAG’s arguments against disclosure is attached.
If you have any questions, please contact me at publicrecords@oag.texas.gov.
Sincerely,
Marisol Bernal-Leon
Public Information Coordinator’s Office
Office of the Attorney General
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