Tuesday, July 20, 2021

MY REPLY LETTER TO CITY OF AUSTIN TODAY INQUIRES ABOUT THE APPARENT SHIFT FROM AUSTIN CITY HALL TO AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT ON LEGAL AUTHORITY OVER THE WRITTEN REPLY TO MY RECENT PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST FOCUSED ON THE CITY ATTORNEY's OFFICE AND ME

 

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Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 12:49:03 AM CDT
Subject: Re: [Austin Public Records Center] :: C106047-070621

July 20, 2021

Dear Open Records Team for the Austin Police Department in this state-capital city for Texas,

Thank you for your e-mail reply letter (final item, below) to me today. Your reply letter was written by your municipal law-enforcement agency's "Open Records Team".

Your reply message today stated (see final item, below):
"We have not written to the Attorney General. If the City of Austin does, we will send you a copy of that letter. The law states 'promptly' to complete public information requests and the City has implemented a 10 business day completion model. However, due to the ongoing pandemic, the Office of Attorney General has implemented an extension for calculating business days and can be found at https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/open-government/governmental-bodies/catastrophe-notice/update-calculation-business-days-and-covid-19 . We will certainly update you if any measures involving the AG are being taken.
"Thank you for contacting the City of Austin.
 "Open Records Team
"Austin Police Department".

May I ask whether your reply letter today from your municipal law-enforcement agency implies that you have officially transferred legal authority for responding to my July 6, 2021, public-information request --- a request I wrote that is focused on the City of Austin Law Department (also known as the City Attorney's Office) and me --- to the Austin Police Department?

My July 6 online public-information request to the City of Austin had sought "a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or letters or press releases, that were generated or received or sent or mailed or forwarded or FAXed at any time since 12:01 a.m. November 15, 2019, on behalf of or by any attorney or administrator or other staff member employed in or by the City of Austin Law Department (also known as the City Attorney's Office)
here in Austin, and that, in each and every such case, referred at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
"EXCLUDED FROM THE SCOPE OF THIS PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST ARE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS THAT WERE EXCLUSIVELY OR SOLELY WRITTEN BY MYSELF,  JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN."

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 (a large gated-community complex), 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.


John Kevin McMillan


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Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021, 12:47:10 AM CDT
Subject: Re: [Austin Public Records Center] :: C106047-070621


July 19, 2021

Dear City of Austin (TX) Law Department Public Information Requests Coordinator,

Thank you for your July 16, 2021, e-mail reply letter to me in response to my July 6, 2021, online public-information request focused on your City Law Department here in Austin, Texas, and me. 
My request had sought "a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or letters or press releases, that were generated or received or sent or mailed or forwarded or FAXed at any time since 12:01 a.m. November 15, 2019, on behalf of or by any attorney or administrator or other staff member employed in or by the City of Austin Law Department (also known as the City Attorney's Office)
here in Austin, and that, in each and every such case, referred at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
"EXCLUDED FROM THE SCOPE OF THIS PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST ARE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS THAT WERE EXCLUSIVELY OR SOLELY WRITTEN BY MYSELF,  JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN."

Your July 16, 2021, reply letter to me stated as follows: 
"Your Public Information Request Reference # C106047-070621 is still being processed.  The City of Austin will make the effort to ensure information you have requested is made available in a timely manner.  We anticipate completing your request on or before August 20, 2021.
 "Thank you for contacting the City of Austin.
 "PIR Team
"City of Austin—Law Department
"(512) 974-2268".

May I ask whether you submitted a written request to the Attorney General of Texas for an extension from that state agency on the latest date---traditionally, the maximum allowable time period in our state for responding in full to a public-information request is 10 working days after receipt of that request---by which you are required to provide me with any and all responsive legal documents?

I have not received any statement from you that indicated you might or will request official permission from the Attorney General for the legal right to withhold from me one or more of the legal documents that are responsive to my July 6 public-information request.

Thank you in advance for your very helpful reply letter to me on this.

Best Wishes,
public-information requestor John Kevin McMillan.
Home address ever since June 21, 2019: Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Bldg. 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

hn Kevin McMillan




On Friday, July 16, 2021, 04:20:08 PM CDT, Austin Public Records Center <austintx@govqa.us> wrote:




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Re: Public Information Request of July 06, 2021, Reference # C106047-070621
 
Dear Mr. John Kevin McMillan,
 
The City of Austin received a Public Information request from you on July 06, 2021, to request copies of records pertaining to the following:
 
“Dear City of Austin (TX) Public Information Office Open Records Coordinator,

This is a Texas Open Records Act request in which I seek to obtain from the City Government of Austin a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or letters or press releases, that were generated or
received or sent or mailed or forwarded or FAXed at any time since 12:01 a.m. November 15, 2019, on behalf of or by any attorney or administrator or other staff member employed in or by the City of Austin Law Department (also known as the City Attorney's Office)
here in Austin, and that, in each and every such case, referred at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

EXCLUDED FROM THE SCOPE OF THIS PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST ARE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS THAT WERE EXCLUSIVELY OR SOLELY WRITTEN BY MYSELF,  JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN.


My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I was born on April 27, 1957, at Lincoln, Nebraska. I have most recently resided in Austin proper on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.


I am a gainfully employed single adult white male Austin resident of English, Scottish, and German ancestry. I am a lifelong American citizen. I am also a certified direct descendant of the Rev. William Brewster, the great Puritan religious leader who served
as head chaplain on the Mayflower and, later, as a leading religious adviser to British Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford in a geographical area now situated in the U.S. state or Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


I myself do not have any criminal-conviction record. I lead a permanently drinking-alcohol-free (ever since the late summer of 1990, and never previously addicted), longtime-celibate-by-choice (including ever since I moved to north Austin in August 2001), single-by-choice,
lifelong-tobacco-free and anti-tobacco-minded, lifelong-vaping-free, permanently marijuana-free (ever since the late fall of 1984, and never previously addicted), lifelong-illicit-drug-free in regard to any and all illicit drugs other than marijuana, lifelong-tattoo-less
and anti-tattoo-minded, permanently facially-cleanshaven (no beard, no mustache, no goatee, etc.) and anti-facial-hair-minded, civil and law-abiding and honest and law-enforcement-minded, clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with
other persons), non-gambling, lawfully non-Christian and implicitly-deistic (non-atheistic), religiously independent (I'm the only approved current member of my non-proselytizing "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", an Honor Society new religion with very
stringent membership-eligibility requirements) lifestyle here in Austin.

I have resided alone as the rent-paying sole official tenant and the only approved occupant in Apartment 2418 of Building 17 at Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive in northeast
Austin and in the Austin City Council District 4 section of Austin, on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since June 21, 2019. I always sleep alone on my own bed. 
Ever since my move-in date of June 21, 2019, I have NEVER at any time ever once permitted anyone but on-duty APD officers or, on one total occasion ever since I moved into my current
unit, on-duty Austin-Travis County EMS staff members, to enter or be physically present anywhere inside my current always-bolt-locked apartment unit anytime between the hours of 8 p.m. at nighttime and 7:59 a.m. in the morning. 
No staff member or representative for the City Government of Austin Public Health Department has ever been physically present anywhere inside my current always-bolt-locked efficiency
apartment unit on any occasion since or including the day I moved into my current rental-housing unit on June 21, 2019.
I have maintained the same primary e-mail address throughout the entire multi-year period applicable to this public-information request. That e-mail address is: mcmillanj@att.net .


My landline home phone number has remained the same throughout the entire time period applicable to this public-information request. That phone number for me is: (512) 342-2295.


My cell phone number, which I have had ever since I obtained my first-ever cell phone (AT&T being my cell-phone service provider) in August of 2019, is: (512) 993-7305.


Thank you in advance for your very diligent and authoritative and thorough reply letter providing me with any and all responsive legal documents.


Sincerely and Best Wishes,


John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.

My current home address: 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.

My home phone: (512) 342-2295.

My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

My blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com”
 
Your Public Information Request Reference # C106047-070621 is still being processed.  The City of Austin will make the effort to ensure information you have requested is made available in a timely manner.  We anticipate completing your request on or before August 20, 2021.
 
Thank you for contacting the City of Austin.
 
PIR Team
City of Austin—Law Department
(512) 974-2268

To monitor the progress or update this request please log into the Austin Public Records Center

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John Kevin McMillan


On Monday, July 19, 2021, 03:42:35 PM CDT, Austin Public Records Center <austintx@govqa.us> wrote:




--- Please respond above this line ---



Re: Open Record Request of July 06, 2021, Reference # C106047-070621
 
Dear Mr. John Kevin McMillan,
 
The City of Austin received a Public Information request from you on July 06, 2021, to request copies of records pertaining to the following:
 
“Dear City of Austin (TX) Public Information Office Open Records Coordinator,

This is a Texas Open Records Act request in which I seek to obtain from the City Government of Austin a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or memoranda or reports or letters or press releases, that were generated or
received or sent or mailed or forwarded or FAXed at any time since 12:01 a.m. November 15, 2019, on behalf of or by any attorney or administrator or other staff member employed in or by the City of Austin Law Department (also known as the City Attorney's Office)
here in Austin, and that, in each and every such case, referred at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.

EXCLUDED FROM THE SCOPE OF THIS PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST ARE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS THAT WERE EXCLUSIVELY OR SOLELY WRITTEN BY MYSELF,  JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN.


My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I was born on April 27, 1957, at Lincoln, Nebraska. I have most recently resided in Austin proper on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.


I am a gainfully employed single adult white male Austin resident of English, Scottish, and German ancestry. I am a lifelong American citizen. I am also a certified direct descendant of the Rev. William Brewster, the great Puritan religious leader who served
as head chaplain on the Mayflower and, later, as a leading religious adviser to British Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford in a geographical area now situated in the U.S. state or Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


I myself do not have any criminal-conviction record. I lead a permanently drinking-alcohol-free (ever since the late summer of 1990, and never previously addicted), longtime-celibate-by-choice (including ever since I moved to north Austin in August 2001), single-by-choice,
lifelong-tobacco-free and anti-tobacco-minded, lifelong-vaping-free, permanently marijuana-free (ever since the late fall of 1984, and never previously addicted), lifelong-illicit-drug-free in regard to any and all illicit drugs other than marijuana, lifelong-tattoo-less
and anti-tattoo-minded, permanently facially-cleanshaven (no beard, no mustache, no goatee, etc.) and anti-facial-hair-minded, civil and law-abiding and honest and law-enforcement-minded, clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with
other persons), non-gambling, lawfully non-Christian and implicitly-deistic (non-atheistic), religiously independent (I'm the only approved current member of my non-proselytizing "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", an Honor Society new religion with very
stringent membership-eligibility requirements) lifestyle here in Austin.

I have resided alone as the rent-paying sole official tenant and the only approved occupant in Apartment 2418 of Building 17 at Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive in northeast
Austin and in the Austin City Council District 4 section of Austin, on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since June 21, 2019. I always sleep alone on my own bed. 
Ever since my move-in date of June 21, 2019, I have NEVER at any time ever once permitted anyone but on-duty APD officers or, on one total occasion ever since I moved into my current
unit, on-duty Austin-Travis County EMS staff members, to enter or be physically present anywhere inside my current always-bolt-locked apartment unit anytime between the hours of 8 p.m. at nighttime and 7:59 a.m. in the morning. 
No staff member or representative for the City Government of Austin Public Health Department has ever been physically present anywhere inside my current always-bolt-locked efficiency
apartment unit on any occasion since or including the day I moved into my current rental-housing unit on June 21, 2019.
I have maintained the same primary e-mail address throughout the entire multi-year period applicable to this public-information request. That e-mail address is: mcmillanj@att.net .


My landline home phone number has remained the same throughout the entire time period applicable to this public-information request. That phone number for me is: (512) 342-2295.


My cell phone number, which I have had ever since I obtained my first-ever cell phone (AT&T being my cell-phone service provider) in August of 2019, is: (512) 993-7305.


Thank you in advance for your very diligent and authoritative and thorough reply letter providing me with any and all responsive legal documents.


Sincerely and Best Wishes,


John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.

My current home address: 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.

My home phone: (512) 342-2295.

My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

My blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com”
 
We have not written to the Attorney General. If the City of Austin does, we will send you a copy of that letter. The law states "promptly" to complete public information requests and the City has implemented a 10 business day completion model. However, due to the ongoing pandemic, the Office of Attorney General has implemented an extension for calculating business days and can be found at https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/open-government/governmental-bodies/catastrophe-notice/update-calculation-business-days-and-covid-19 . We will certainly update you if any measures involving the AG are being taken.
 
Thank you for contacting the City of Austin.
 
Open Records Team
Austin Police Department

To monitor the progress or update this request please log into the Austin Public Records Center

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