Monday, December 14, 2020

MY FRIENDLY FOLLOW-UP NOTE I WROTE AND SENT TODAY TO A VARIETY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND LAW-ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATIONS:

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
To: Brandon Creighton <brandon.creighton@senate.texas.gov>; Alternate ID Sen. Royce West <royce.west@senate.texas.gov>; paul.bettencourt@senate.texas.gov <paul.bettencourt@senate.texas.gov>; Dawn Buckingham <dawn.buckingham@senate.texas.gov>; peter.flores@senate.texas.gov <peter.flores@senate.texas.gov>; jose.menendez@senate.texas.gov <jose.menendez@senate.texas.gov>; Beverly Powell <beverly.powell@senate.texas.gov>; larry.taylor@senate.texas.gov <larry.taylor@senate.texas.gov>; Judith Zaffirini <judith.zaffirini@senate.texas.gov>; Joe Biden <info@joebiden.com>; Chris Turner <chris.turner@house.texas.gov>; lynn.stucky@house.texas.gov <lynn.stucky@house.texas.gov>; lorraine.birabil@house.texas.gov <lorraine.birabil@house.texas.gov>; State Rep. 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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020, 01:57:15 AM CST
Subject: Fw: Your Public Information Request to UT System & OR2020-28032

December 14, 2020

A respectful FYI to each of you on the following friendly reply letter (below) that I wrote and sent on December 12, 2020, to a female Assistant General Counsel for the University of Texas System headquarters offices in downtown Austin. 

I would welcome a reply note or phone call from any of you on any aspect of this.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
current criminal-law complainant (APD Alleged-Continuous-and-Continuing-Sex-Crimes Case Number 20-3161213) and former "Daily Texan" student newspaper UT-Austin-Administration-beat reporter John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, where my botanist Father was an associate professor at the University of Nebraska at that time. I am an alumnus of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications graduate school in Minneapolis. Many of my friendly relatives live in Iowa and Idaho. I earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Texas at Austin---the same public university where my father, Dr. Calvin McMillan, taught Botany and Plant Ecology for many years.

My solo-occupancy always-bolt-locked efficiency-apartment-unit rental-home address ever since June 21, 2019: 
Pebble Creek Apartments (a large and gated-community Belco Equities-affiliated complex), 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295. Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
My Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com

John Kevin McMillan



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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
To: Tynan Cynthia <ctynan@utsystem.edu>; U.S. Department of Education Texas Civil Rights Office Dallas <ocr.dallas@ed.gov>; Chronicle of Higher Education 2016 <editor@chronicle.com>; Joe Biden <info@joebiden.com>; Democratic National Committee <webmaster@democrats.org>; Nichole.Bunker-Henderson@highered.texas.gov <nichole.bunker-henderson@highered.texas.gov>; alumnimembership@umn.edu <alumnimembership@umn.edu>; david.escamilla@traviscountytx.gov <david.escamilla@traviscountytx.gov>; Austin Police Dept. Asst. Chief Troy Gay <troy.gay@austintexas.gov>; jose@joseforda.com <jose@joseforda.com>; Real Justice PAC <info@realjusticepac.org>; Margaret Moore <margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov>; Hernandez Sally [TCSO] <sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov>; Debbie Hiott <dhiott@kut.org>; debbie.reynolds@traviscountytx.gov <debbie.reynolds@traviscountytx.gov>; Fbinaa Info <info@fbinaa.org>; Mike Henderson <mike.henderson@traviscountytx.gov>; City of Austin City Attorney Anne Morgan <anne.morgan@austintexas.gov>; Jason Laduque <jason.laduque@austintexas.gov>; Office for Victims of Crime U.S. DOJ <itverp@usdoj.gov>; APD Chief Brian Manley 2020 <brian.manley@austintexas.gov>; david.maxwell@texasattorneygeneral.gov <david.maxwell@texasattorneygeneral.gov>; public.information@texasattorneygeneral.gov <public.information@texasattorneygeneral.gov>; Humantrafficking <humantrafficking@oag.texas.gov>; TXGov Child Sex Trafficking Team 2020 <cstt@gov.texas.gov>; Crime Victims' Institute2020 Sam Htn State U <crimevictims@shsu.edu>; Lori Robinson <lrobinson@bickerstaff.com>; press@txdemocrats.org <press@txdemocrats.org>; texaspolitics@mail.laits.utexas.edu <texaspolitics@mail.laits.utexas.edu>; Texas Tribune Editor in Chief Evan Smith <esmith@texastribune.org>; asevilla@statesman.com <asevilla@statesman.com>; Rep. 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Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020, 10:12:16 PM CST
Subject: Fw: Your Public Information Request to UT System & OR2020-28032

December 12, 2020

Dear Assistant General Counsel Cynthia Tynan of the University of Texas System Administration headquarters offices in downtown Austin,

Thank you for your disclosure (below) to me on Friday, December 11, 2020, that the Attorney General of Texas officially determined in a November 7, 2020, unsigned memorandum opinion that you can legally withhold from me cited legal documents referring to myself by name. 
Each of those documents apparently refer to consultation of one or more UT System attorneys about myself by one or more certified peace officers employed in the UT System Office of the Director of Police in downtown Austin. 

On October 20, 2020, you had signed an official legal letter that sought an official ruling from the Attorney General because those legal-consultation notes referring to me by name were (as you acknowledged to me in writing) responsive to my September 21, 2020, public-information request (final item, below) as amended and clarified by me on October 5, 2020 (below).

The revised public-information request of mine had sought "a copy of any and all written communications, including any and all e-mail communications and reports and directives, referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that at any time from 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011, to the present, were written, generated, sent, e-mailed, forwarded, mailed, FAXed, or received by a state-certified supervisory peace officer or any other state-certified peace officer employed inside the UT System Office of the Director of Police in downtown Austin. Excluded from the scope of this request are any and all documents that I myself exclusively wrote...."

One follow-up question for you, Ms. Tynan: 
Do you know the total number of occasions since March 10, 1997, in which UT System Administration has submitted a legal letter to the Attorney General of Texas that sought and also obtained authorization to withhold from me one or more legal documents directly referring to myself by name that were responsive to a public-information request of mine to either UT System or a UT System component institution such as UT-Austin?

I am posing this hopefully-polite follow-up question because I am concerned about the possibility that one or more officials of UT System may possibly believe or sense that UT System or some component institution of UT System has some possible conflict with me unbeknownst  to me that relates to conduct of mine that is, in fact, law-abiding on my own part.

Thank you in advance, Assistant General Counsel Tynan, for your helpful reply note to me on this.

Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a law-abiding and gainfully-employed single adult permanently-drinking-alcohol-free (ever since 1990), lifelong-tobacco-free, permanently marijuana-free (ever since 1984), Anglo-Saxon male alumnus of both UT-Austin and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. 
I am the current criminal-law complainant and self-identified current continuous-crimes victim in current Austin Police Department Alleged Sex-Crimes Case Number 20-3161213---a new crime case that was generated by APD on November 11, 2020.
My solo-occupancy always-bolt-locked efficiency-apartment-unit rental-home address ever since June 21, 2019: 
Pebble Creek Apartments (a gated-community, Belco Equities-affiliated complex), 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295. Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
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From: Tynan, Cynthia <ctynan@utsystem.edu>
To: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020, 01:59:29 PM CST
Subject: RE: Your Public Information Request to UT System & OR2020-28032

Dear John McMillan,

 

This correspondence relates to your below clarified request for information submitted to The University of Texas System Administration (“UT System”). Your clarified request seeks “all written communications, including any and all e-mail communications and reports and directives, referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that at any time from 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011, to the present, were written, generated, sent, e-mailed, forwarded, mailed, FAXed, or received by a state-certified supervisory peace officer or any other state-certified peace officer employed inside the UT System Office of the Director of Police in downtown Austin. Excluded from the scope of this request are any and all documents that I myself exclusively wrote.”

 

UT System received the attached Attorney General opinion, OR2020-28032, which finds UT System may withhold the information at issue as privileged attorney-client communications. As noted in our earlier correspondence, UT System previously released responsive information not excepted from disclosure. Accordingly, there is no additional information for release. UT System considers this matter closed.

 

Regards,

 

Cynthia Tynan

Assistant General Counsel & Public Information Coordinator

Office of General Counsel

The University of Texas System

210 W. 7th Street

Austin, TX 78701

Direct 512.499.4505 | E-mail ctynan@utsystem.edu

 

 

  

 

From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2020 9:13 PM
To: Tynan, Cynthia <ctynan@utsystem.edu>; State Senator Sarah Eckhardt 2020 <sarah.eckhardt@senate.texas.gov>; Austin Police Dept. Asst. Chief Troy Gay <troy.gay@austintexas.gov>; Margaret Moore <margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov>; Daniel Evans <daniel.evans@traviscountytx.gov>; Mike Henderson <mike.henderson@traviscountytx.gov>; david.escamilla@traviscountytx.gov; Joe Biden <info@joebiden.com>; Office for Victims of Crime U.S. DOJ <itverp@usdoj.gov>; City of Austin City Attorney Anne Morgan <anne.morgan@austintexas.gov>; Hernandez Sally [TCSO] <sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov>; Rep. 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Subject: Re: 9-21-20 TPIA: UT System Police Dept. peace officers in Travis County, Texas, and me

 

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To: Cynthia Tynan, 

Assistant General Counsel & Public Information Coordinator, 

Office of General Counsel,

The University of Texas System,

210 W. 7th Street,

Austin, TX 78701

Direct 512.499.4505 | E-mail ctynan@utsystem.edu

 

October 5, 2020

 

Dear Ms. Tynan,

 

Thank you for your brief e-mail note (final item, below) to me today, which informed me that the text of your reply message to me today (with verbatim text of your reply message today now appearing immediately below) could be reviewed by me in encrypted form.

 

In response to your polite question to me today, I would like to substitute the following paragraph, immediately below, for the first paragraph of my September 21, 2020, public-information request (final item, below) to your UT System General Counsel and Vice Chancellor Daniel Sharphorn.

"I am seeking a copy of any and all written communications, including any and all e-mail communications and reports and directives, referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that at any time from 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011, to the present, were written, generated, sent, e-mailed, forwarded, mailed, FAXed, or received by a state-certified supervisory peace officer or any other state-certified peace officer employed inside the UT System Office of the Director of Police in downtown Austin. Excluded from the scope of this request are any and all documents that I myself exclusively wrote."

 

Please disregard the first paragraph only from my September 21, 2020, public-information request, with all other portions of that letter to remain exactly the same as before and to be included in this revised public-information request from myself.

 

Thank you again for your reply note to me today. I hope to hear from you soon.

 

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

 

John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.

My solo-occupancy efficiency-apartment-unit rental-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.

 

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FW: 9-21-20 TPIA: UT System Police Dept. peace officers in Travis County, Texas, and me

Dear John McMillan,

 

This correspondence relates to your below request for information, received by The University of Texas System Administration (“UT System”) on September 21, 2020.  In your request you state you seek the following:

 

a copy of any and all written communications, including any and all e-mail communications and reports, referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that at any time from 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011, to the present, were written, produced, sent, e-mailed, forwarded, mailed, or received by a certified peace officer, regardless of his or her rank or title or administrative position, who either was at that time or currently is pursuing job duties in Travis County, Texas, for the UT System Police Department.

 

We require additional guidance in order to process your request. 

 

Initially, please note that in response to earlier requests, UT System has provided you with certain information pertaining to yourself (see attached emails), and sought opinions from the Attorney General regarding information we believed was excepted from disclosure. In the attached opinions, the Attorney General agreed the information at issue was excepted from disclosure. The law, facts, and circumstances on which those prior rulings were based have not changed. Accordingly, UT System will continue to rely on those rulings and withhold any information responsive to the instant request on that basis.

 

We understand that you are seeking email communications and reports, referencing yourself that were created, received, or sent by a certified peace officer working for University police. However, UT System does not have its own police department in the traditional sense of the term. Rather, UT System’s Office of the Director of Police (“ODOP”) oversees the departments at the UT System institutions, including The University of Texas at Austin (“UT Austin”). The reports and emails of officers at the UT System institutions police departments is separately maintained by the institution police departments and must be requested directly from those institutions.

 

  


Office of the Director of Police

Mission Michael J. Heidingsfield Director of Police

 

 

 

To the extent you seek information maintained by UT Austin’s police department, you can submit requests to UT Austin via e-mail at publicinformationrequest@austin.utexas.edu or via UT Austin’s online portal available at Support Home PageThe webpage containing the online portal also contains information regarding UT Austin’s open records process and a mailing address.

 

Support Home Page

 

 

 

To the extent your seek information maintained by UT System’s ODOP, other than the information previously released to you or excepted from disclosure under the prior Attorney General opinions, please confirm that is the information you seek. Additionally, if you seek information maintained by ODOP, do you agree to exclude any emails correspondence directly to or from yourself, such that you would already maintain the information in your personal email account?

 

Your response will help clarify your request so that we may promptly identify and not exclude any of the information you seek.

 

Please note that if you do not respond to this request for clarification in writing within 61 days from the date of this letter, your request will be considered withdrawn.  See Tex. Gov’t Code § 552.222(d)-(e). 

 

Without additional clarification from you, we are unable to process your request further.  Upon receipt of your written clarification, we will review any responsive documents for release in light of any applicable exceptions under the Texas Public Information Act.  We will respond to your clarification within a timely manner as required by law.  See City of Dallas v. Abbott, 304 S.W.3d 380 (Tex. 2010).

 

Please send your clarification in writing via email to ctynan@utsystem.edu or to the address in my below signature line.  In addition, you can reach me to discuss any questions via telephone at 512-499-4505.

 

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this correspondence, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Regards,

 

Cynthia Tynan

Assistant General Counsel & Public Information Coordinator

Office of General Counsel

The University of Texas System

210 W. 7th Street

Austin, TX 78701

Direct 512.499.4505 | E-mail ctynan@utsystem.edu

 

 

 

 

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Mr. Daniel H. Sharphorn, 

Vice Chancellor and General Counsel,

The University of Texas System (UT System),

210 West 7th Street,

Austin, Texas 78701-2903

 

September 21, 2020


Dear Vice Chancellor Sharphorn,

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 and all e-mail communications and reports, referring at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, that at any time from 12:01 a.m. April 28, 2011, to the present, were written, produced, sent, e-mailed, forwarded, mailed, or received by a certified peace officer, regardless of his or her rank or title or administrative position, who either was at that time or currently is pursuing job duties in Travis County, Texas, for the UT System Police Department.

 

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

 

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 have resided in Austin proper on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.

 

I have kept the same personal e-mail address of "mcmillanj@att.net" throughout the entire nine-year period applicable to this public-information request. I have also used the same personal phone number of (512) 342-2295 throughout the entire nine-year period for this request.

 

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 Austin Independent School District (AISD) classes are being held, my current apartment complex in Austin is serviced on schoolday mornings by AISD buses and AISD bus drivers.

 

During the nine-year period applicable to this public-information request, I have resided as a rent-paying official tenant or, for a brief multi-month period in 2016, a rent-paying approved occupant, at the following locations, listed chronologically from oldest address 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.
---Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, 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", or "PPR", 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-area 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"---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 in Austin. 

 

One anonymous male younger person around the turn of the century left a recorded phone message on my telephone answering machine inside my ViewPoint Apartments rental-apartment unit near UT-Austin, in which he stated that he himself was "Catholic"; and he used profanity and a violent, obscene phrase in criticizing my PPR religion.

 

One former resident of the Austin area, Dr. Michael Kim McMillan, around the turn of the century stated to me with indignation and intense revulsion on his face in an in-person conversation I had with him outdoors near the UT-Austin campus during a visit of his to Austin, Texas, from out of state: "The 'Heaven on Earth' religion you've (John Kevin McMillan of Austin) established has inflicted Hell on our entire planet!"

 

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

 

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.

My solo-occupancy efficiency-apartment-unit rental-home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Bldg. 17 (a multi-unit apartment building situated in the northeastern corner of this large and gated-community complex that reportedly receives private security-patrol services on a 24-hour-a-day and year-round basis from Statewide Patrol, Inc.), Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

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