Wednesday, November 11, 2020

MY FOLLOW-UP LETTER TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN LAW DEPARTMENT (CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE) THAT I WROTE AND E-MAILED TO THEM EARLIER THIS MORNING:

(PLEASE NOTE: I HAVE ADDED THE LETTER 'S' TO THE WORD 'RESOURCE' BELOW, FOR THE SAKE OF COMPLETE ACCURACY IN MY SPELLING OF THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING IN MY ONLINE PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST BELOW THAT WAS RECIEVED BY THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN ON NOVEMBER 9, 2020:)

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 12:25:24 AM CST
Subject: Re: [Austin Public Records Center] :: C084686-110920

November 11, 2020

Dear City of Austin Law Department Public Information Requests (PIR) response team, 

Thank you for your prompt e-mail reply letter (below) to me yesterday in response to my November 9, 2020, online public-information request focused on the City of Austin Human Resources Department Civil Service Director's personnel records and specified peace officers of the Austin (TX) Police Department in calendar year 2020.

My online request, as noted below, had sought "a copy of the City of Austin Human Resources Department Civil Service Director's personnel file records for Austin Police Department officers that cite the full legal name, racial identity, religious affiliation, marital status, APD disciplinary actions in regard to themselves, and current APD or City of Austin job duties for each and every certified peace officer (if any) of the Austin Police Department who for any period of time in calendar year 2020 either resided at or currently resides at the Pebble Creek Apartments gated-community apartment complex, 8805 North Plaza Drive, zip code 78753, in northeast Austin.”

Pebble Creek Apartments are the large gated-community apartment complex in Austin where I myself have resided alone ever since June 21, 2019, in Apartment 2418. I also continue to reside in that same efficiency rental-unit as a rent-paying official tenant and apartment-management-team-approved occupant living alone inside my always-bolt-locked apartment unit under my current 12-month signed official lease agreement with the management team here that expires at 11:59 p.m. June 30, 2021.

Your reply letter to me yesterday appears to possibly indicate that the City's Human Resources Department may possibly have legal documents on file with that municipal-government department here in Austin that are responsive to the above-quoted public-information request from myself.

Are you willing to at least please confirm for me in writing that the City of Austin Human Resources Department does have responsive legal documents---documents referring to one or more peace officers of the Austin Police Department who earlier in 2020 or currently reside at or resided at Pebble Creek Apartments, a gated-community complex at 8805 North Plaza Drive in northeast Austin?

Thank you in advance for your very helpful reply letter to me in response to this hopefully-polite follow-up question from myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
public-information requestor John Kevin McMillan.
My solo-occupancy efficiency-apartment-unit rental-home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17 (in the northeastern corner of this Belco Equities Company-affiliated apartment complex), Apartment 2418 (a second-floor, eastward-facing apartment unit), Austin, TX 78753.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295. My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.


John Kevin McMillan


On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 04:30:41 PM CST, Austin Public Records Center <austintx@mycusthelp.net> wrote:




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Re: Open Record Request of November 09, 2020, Reference # C084686-110920
 
Dear Mr. John Kevin McMillan,
 
The City of Austin received a Public Information request from you on November 09, 2020, to request copies of records pertaining to the following:
 
“I am seeking a copy of the City of Austin Human Resources Department Civil Service Director's personnel file records for Austin Police Department officers that cite the full legal name, racial identity, religious affiliation, marital status, APD disciplinary actions in regard to themselves, and current APD or City of Austin job duties for each and every certified peace officer (if any) of the Austin Police Department who for any period of time in calendar year 2020 either resided at or currently resides at the Pebble Creek Apartments gated-community apartment complex, 8805 North Plaza Drive, zip code 78753, in northeast Austin.”
 
The requested information is confidential under Texas Public Information Act Section 552.117(a)(2). The City has a previous determination under Open Records Decision No. 670 (2001). This request will be closed.
 
Thank you for contacting the City of Austin.
 
PIR Team
City of Austin—Law Department
(512) 974-2268

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