To: Lesli G. Gattis,
Deputy General Counsel & Public Information Coordinator,
Office of General Counsel,
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board state agency,
State Government of Texas,
Austin, Texas.
September 30, 2021
Dear Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Deputy General Counsel and Public Information Coordinator Lesli G. Gattis,
Thank you for your reply letter (below) to me today in regard to my recent public-information request to your State of Texas agency in Austin.
I appreciate the fact that you have labeled this matter as "sensitive", based on a red-colored label that you apparently wrote as an evaluation of the subject matter relating to this public-information request from myself.
Deputy General Counsel Gattis, I will look forward to receiving any and all documents you send to me that are responsive to my recent public-information request to your state agency in Austin for which you are today citing your official date of receipt as September 23, 2021.
That August 31, 2021-dated public-information request from me had sought "a copy of any and all letters, e-mail letters, reports, memoranda, or other written communications referring to myself at least once in any manner, and that in each such case were written, received, sent, forwarded, mailed, or FAXed at any time since April 1, 2011, by any staff member or attorney or administrator of your state agency's Office of General Counsel here in Austin."
I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
public information requestor John Kevin McMillan, an alumnus of The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Minnesota Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communications in Minneapolis, respectively.
My solo-occupancy efficiency-apartment-unit rental 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.
Blog: htttp://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com
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On Thursday, September 30, 2021, 05:13:08 PM CDT, Gattis, Lesli <lesli.gattis@highered.texas.gov> wrote:
Dear Mr. McMillan,
We have conducted a search for any correspondence or request from you on or after 8/31/21, and it does not appear that THECB received your request. However, we will treat it as received on 9/23/21, and will conduct a diligent search for any responsive documents.
With respect to the inquiry that you originally directed to TEA, in your email below, please note that the Texas Public Information Act does not require a governmental body to perform research or answer questions. See Open Records Decision Nos. 563 at 8 (1990), 555 at 1-2.
Best,
LGG
Lesli G. Gattis
Deputy General Counsel & Public Information Coordinator
Office of General Counsel
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
lesli.gattis@highered.texas.gov
______________________
From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 8:32 PM
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Subject: Fw: 8-31-21 PIR re: THECB state agency Office of General Counsel and me
ALERT: This message was sent from outside of THECB.
To: Lesli Gattis, Public Information Officer, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) state agency, State Government of Texas, 1200 East Anderson Lane, Austin, TX 78752
September 22, 2021
Dear THECB Public Information Officer Gattis,
I still have not received any reply letter from you that acknowledged receipt of my August 31, 2021, public-information request to your State Government of Texas agency in Austin.
If I don't receive any reply letter from your state agency in the next few days, I will have no choice but to myself file a civilly- and politely-worded Open Records complaint with the Attorney General of Texas here in Austin.
I hope to hear from you soon.
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, Bldg. 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 11:23:54 PM CDT
Subject: 8-31-21 PIR re: THECB state agency Office of General Counsel and me
From: John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.
My solo-occupancy efficiency rental-apartment unit home address ever since June 21, 2019:Pebble Creek Apartments (a Belco Equities-managed, large gated community complex that is owned by "Pebble Creek Babay, Ltd., doing business as Pebble Creek Apartments", according to my current official apartment-management-team-approved signed lease agreement for Apt. 2418, in which I am the only cited tenant and only cited occupant), 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
August 31, 2021
To: Lesli Gattis, Public Information Officer, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) state agency, State Government of Texas, 1200 East Anderson Lane, Austin, TX 78752
Dear THECB Public Information Officer Gattis,
This is a public-information request in which I am seeking to obtain from you a copy of any and all letters, e-mail letters, reports, memoranda, or other written communications referring to myself at least once in any manner, and that in each such case were written, received, sent, forwarded, mailed, or FAXed at any time since April 1, 2011, by any staff member or attorney or administrator of your state agency's Office of General Counsel here in Austin.
This public-information request was prompted by a May 27, 2021, reply e-mail letter (farther below) to me from the Texas Education Agency's public information coordinator, Sherry Mansell, whose office is located in that state agency's Office of General Counsel here in Austin. Ms. Mansell's reply letter to me contained the following statement: "You (John Kevin McMillan of Austin) may wish to contact Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. This (that) agency may have information related to your (May 15, 2021-dated) request" (farther below).
My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. My date of birth: April 27,1957. I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. I am a single adult white Anglo-Saxon non-Hispanic gentleman of English, Scottish, and German ancestry. I lead a permanently drinking-alcohol-free (ever since 1990), permanently marijuana-free (ever since 1984), lifelong-illicit-drug-free in regard to any and all illicit drugs other than marijuana, lifelong-tobacco-free, lifelong-non-vaping, dependably civil and law-abiding, non-sadomasochistic and anti-S&M, platonicly polite lifestyle. I strongly oppose "thought-control projects" and I take pride in being privacy-respectful. I myself DO NOT generate any anonymous communications that are inflicted on anyone else in a context that violates or impinges on their own privacy rights. I oppose verbal harassment of or by anyone.
I have been and continue to be gainfully employed as a non-managerial staff member at one or more restaurant workplaces in the Austin area of Texas on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since April 27, 2002.
I am a very recent criminal-law complainant in APD Alleged Home-Invasion-Crimes and Alleged Sex Crimes Case 21-0830533----an APD crime case that was activated by APD on March 24, 2021. No DNA-swabs forensic anal-rape-evidence medical exam on me has been authorized by APD's Sex Crimes Unit or the Austin Safe Alliance so far this year. However, I remain very hopeful that the infrared motion-sensitive photographic documentation of alleged trespassers inside the bedroom of my bolt-locked current rental-apartment unit during my sleeping hours that I have been providing to the APD Sex Crimes Unit over a multi-month period this year (and in other recent years as well) will help to convince that APD unit of my urgent need for a forensic DNA-swabs anal-rape-evidence medical exam on me as soon as possible.
My primary personal e-mail address, "mcmillanj@att.net", has remained the same throughout the 10-and-one-half-year period applicable to this public-information request. My landline phone number, (512) 342-2295, has remained the same throughout the entire 10-and-one-half-year period applicable to this public-information request. My cell phone number of (512) 993-7305 has been the same ever since the summer of 2019, when I became a cell phone owner and cell phone user for the first time ever.
I have resided at the following respective home addresses during the 10-and-one-half-year period applicable to this public-information request:
---Wind River Crossing Apartments, 11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, TX 78759.---Crossland Economy Studios, Extended Stay America, 12621 Hymeadow Road, Apt. 133, Austin, TX 78729.---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Bldg. 9, Apt. 902, Austin, TX 78759.---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Bldg. 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.---Austin Motor Inn, 11400 North IH 35 (a hotel room I rented for one week in June 2019 until I had official prior permission from the Pebble Creek Apartments management team to move into my new rental-apartment unit at the cited date and time of noon on June 21, 2019), Austin, TX 78753;and, most recently, Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Ever since and including the day I moved into my current efficiency-apartment unit at Pebble Creek Apartments on June 21, 2019, I have been and continue to be the ONLY official tenant and ONLY approved occupant in my efficiency rental-apartment unit, Apt. 2418, at Pebble Creek Apartments.
To assist your State of Texas agency as you search for legal documents responsive to this public-information request, I am sharing with you the following e-mail correspondence of mine that either refers to your state agency or is directly addressed to your state agency:
From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
To: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 2021 <commissioner@highered.texas.gov>; William Costello <william.costello@austintexas.gov>; Fbinaa Info <info@fbinaa.org>; Austin Police Dept. Asst. Chief Troy Gay <troy.gay@austintexas.gov>; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) <itverp@usdoj.gov>; Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Justice Dept. <ttac@ovcttac.org>; The White House Attn Pres. Biden <engagement@ostp.eop.gov>; josh.reno@texasattorneygeneral.gov <josh.reno@texasattorneygeneral.gov>; brent.dupre@texasattorneygeneral.gov <brent.dupre@texasattorneygeneral.gov>; takebackhope@tlsc.org <takebackhope@tlsc.org>; Mike Henderson <mike.henderson@traviscountytx.gov>; Texas Rangers (2015) <rangers@dps.texas.gov>; U.S. Department of Homeland Security <private.sector@dhs.gov>; patricia.cruz@austintexas.gov <patricia.cruz@austintexas.gov>; Humantrafficking <humantrafficking@oag.texas.gov>; icehumantrafficking.helpdesk@dhs.gov <icehumantrafficking.helpdesk@dhs.gov>; Tennessee Fusion Center 2021 <tipstotbi@tn.gov>; ND State & Local Intelligence Center <ndslic@nd.gov>; alumnimembership@umn.edu <alumnimembership@umn.edu>; Minnesota Sex Crimes Investigators Assn. Brd Member Dunphy (2016) <stot.dunphy@minneapolismn.gov>; Texas anti-crime Fusion Center 2021 <txfc@dps.texas.gov>; steven.mccraw@dps.texas.gov <steven.mccraw@dps.texas.gov>; tracy.martinez@dps.texas.gov <tracy.martinez@dps.texas.gov>; dpscontact@utah.gov <dpscontact@utah.gov>; elder.justice@usdoj.gov <elder.justice@usdoj.gov>; TWC Ombudsman <ombudsman@twc.state.tx.us>; Bryan D. Snoddy <bryan.snoddy@twc.state.tx.us>; FederalCommunicationsCommission <fccinfo@fcc.gov>; Federal Trade Commission D.C. <webmaster@ftc.gov>; U.S. Department of Education Texas Civil Rights Office (Dallas) <ocr.dallas@ed.gov>; Trustees <trustees@austinisd.org>; pir@tea.texas.gov <pir@tea.texas.gov>; Hernandez Sally [TCSO] <sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov>; City of Austin City Attorney Anne Morgan <anne.morgan@austintexas.gov>; delia.garza@traviscountytx.gov <delia.garza@traviscountytx.gov>; jose.garza@traviscountytx.gov <jose.garza@traviscountytx.gov>; henry.kellison@traviscountytx.gov <henry.kellison@traviscountytx.gov>; State Senator Sarah Eckhardt 2020 <sarah.eckhardt@senate.texas.gov>; Senator Sarah Eckhardt Constituent Assistance <district14.eckhardt@senate.texas.gov>; Senator Sarah Eckhardt Public Policy <andromeda.roberts@senate.texas.gov>; kpwatson@uh.edu <kpwatson@uh.edu>; Saundra Ragona <ssragona@gmail.com>; p139@traviscountydemocrats.org <p139@traviscountydemocrats.org>; DOJ Sexual Harassment in Housing Initiative (CRT) <sexualharassment.inhousing@usdoj.gov>; tasb@tasb.org <tasb@tasb.org>; debbie.reynolds@traviscountytx.gov <debbie.reynolds@traviscountytx.gov>; Daniel Evans <daniel.evans@traviscountytx.gov>; Dave Mahoney <dave.mahoney@traviscountytx.gov>; DFPS Office Of Consumer Relations <ocr@dfps.state.tx.us>; Polarisproject Info <info@polarisproject.org>; National Human Trafficking Hotline <nhtrc@polarisproject.org>; Onjewel Smith: Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights <anr@no-smoke.org>; secretary@hitx.org <secretary@hitx.org>; Jason Laduque <jason.laduque@austintexas.gov>; Jason Smith <jsmith@pflugervilletx.gov>; National Association of Federal Employees 2021 <communications@nffe.org>; Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick <dan.patrick@ltgov.texas.gov>; publicrecords@gov.texas.gov <publicrecords@gov.texas.gov>; FAIRHOUSING CRT (CRT) <fairhousing@usdoj.gov>; floridafusioncenter@fdle.state.fl.us <floridafusioncenter@fdle.state.fl.us>; Cleat Info <info@cleat.org>; txjcic@dps.texas.gov <txjcic@dps.texas.gov>; Mike King <michael.king@austintexas.gov>; Lelan Larroque <lelan.larroque@austintexas.gov>; christopher.keen@austintexas.gov <christopher.keen@austintexas.gov>; connect@tceq.texas.gov <connect@tceq.texas.gov>; Tdhca State Tx Info <info@tdhca.state.tx.us>; Andre Adams <andre.adams@tdhca.state.tx.us>; Jeff Libby <jeff.libby@austintexas.gov>; Rosie Truelove <rosie.truelove@austintexas.gov>; health@austintexas.gov <health@austintexas.gov>; sherri.fleming@traviscountytx.gov <sherri.fleming@traviscountytx.gov>; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office) <tx_webmanager@hud.gov>; City of Austin EEOC/Fair Housing Administrator Enrique Serrano <enrique.serrano@austintexas.gov>; Austin Board of Realtors-Govt. Relations <government@abor.com>; Rape Abuse and Incest National Network <info@rainn.org>; Austin Apartment Association 2020 <info@austinaptassoc.com>; Texas Apartment Association <communications@taa.org>; National Apartment Association 2021 <webmaster@naahq.org>; Association for Medical Ethics 2021 <info@ethicaldoctor.org>; Ethics in Government Center 2020 <ncslnet-admin@ncsl.org>; ethics@trynova.org <ethics@trynova.org>; Center for Ethics and Public Integrity (NAAG 2016) <aely@naag.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2021, 09:56:31 PM CDT
Subject: 5-15-21 Questions for your Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board state agency
May 15, 2021
Dear Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board state agency Officials,
Does your very influential State Government of Texas agency in Austin have any current policy that prohibits educational institutions or educational systems operating in Texas from subjecting anyone (I among those persons) to either anonymous communications or continuous anonymous communications in a specified context?
Also, does your very influential State Government of Texas agency have any current policy that prohibits any educational institution or any educational system operating in Texas from subjecting anyone (I among those persons) to deliberately fraudulent or knowingly false communications in a specified context?
Finally, does your very influential State of Texas agency have any current policy that prohibits any educational institution or any educational system operating in Texas from subjecting anyone (I among those persons) to deliberately-medically-injurious continuous noise pollution or to deliberately-medically-injurious noise pollution in a specified context?
Thank you in advance for for your helpful reply note to me on this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a gainfully-employed (I'm a support-staff member employed in three separately owned respective corporate-owned restaurants in Austin, two of them reportedly headquartered in Florida), permanently alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, dependably civil and law-abiding and honest, current criminal-law complainant and cited single male adult 64-year-old Anglo non-Hispanic victim in Austin Police Department Alleged Continuous Home-Invasion-Crimes-and-Alleged-Sex Crimes Case Number 21-0830533, which was activated by APD on March 24, 2021, inside the St. David's Medical Center in central Austin. The first-rate APD-assigned Sex Crimes Investigator for that crime case is APD Detective William Costello. The main phone number for the APD Sex Crimes Unit in Austin, Texas, is: (512) 974-5230.
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---- Forwarded Message -----From: PIR <pir@tea.texas.gov>
To: mcmillanj@att.net <mcmillanj@att.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2021, 10:56:54 AM CDT
Subject: PIR # 47581-Email-No Documents Found Public Information Request
No Documents Found
May 27, 2021
John McMillan TEA PIR #47581
Dear Mr. John McMillan:
On May 17, 2021, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) received your request for public information. A copy of your request is enclosed. TEA has conducted a good faith search for any and all information related to your request and has not been able to locate information that may be responsive to your request. Therefore, this request TEA PIR #47581 is considered closed. Referral to another governmental body: You may wish to contact Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. This agency may have information related to your request. Additionally, you may edit your request and/or submit a new public information request to TEA, in writing. If you have any questions or wish to discuss this matter further, please contact me at (512) 463-3464 or by email at PIR@tea.texas.gov. Sincerely, Sherry Mansell Public Information Coordinator Office of General Counsel 512-463-3464 pir@tea.texas.gov
http://www.tea.texas.gov
Sherry Mansell
Public Information Coordinator
Enclosure: Original Request May 18, 2021
Dear Texas Education Agency state-agency officials in downtown Austin,
Thank you for your reply letter (below) that you sent me on Monday, May 17, in response to questions I had posed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board state agency in Austin.
I will look forward to receiving your follow-up letter providing me with any and all legal documents that are responsive to the May 15 letter (last item, below) of mine I had primarily addressed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
John Kevin McMillan
On Monday, May 17, 2021, 02:05:14 PM CDT, PIR <pir@tea.texas.gov> wrote:
Public Information Request
Receipt Acknowledgement
May 17, 2021
John McMillan
TEA PIR #47581
Dear Mr. John McMillan:
Thank you for contacting the Texas Education Agency. I want to acknowledge receipt of your request. Your request number is PIR # 47581.Our Public Information Request Coordinators are processing your request in coordination with the area(s) that may have the responsive information/data. A response to your request should be provided on or before 10 business days: June 1, 2021. Should you not receive a response within this timeline, please do not hesitate to contact our office and ask to speak to one of our Coordinators.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss this matter further, please contact me at (512) 463-3464 or by email at PIR@tea.texas.gov.
Sincerely,
Sherry Mansell
Public Information Coordinator
Office of General Counsel
512-463-3464
pir@tea.texas.gov
Enclosure: Original Request
May 15, 2021
Dear Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board state agency Officials,
Does your very influential State Government of Texas agency in Austin have any current policy that prohibits educational institutions or educational systems operating in Texas from subjecting anyone (I among those persons) to either anonymous communications or continuous anonymous communications in a specified context?
Also, does your very influential State Government of Texas agency have any current policy that prohibits any educational institution or any educational system operating in Texas from subjecting anyone (I among those persons) to deliberately fraudulent or knowingly false communications in a specified context?
Finally, does your very influential State of Texas agency have any current policy that prohibits any educational institution or any educational system operating in Texas from subjecting anyone (I among those persons) to deliberately-medically-injurious continuous noise pollution or to deliberately-medically-injurious noise pollution in a specified context?
Thank you in advance for for your helpful reply note to me on this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a gainfully-employed (I'm a support-staff member employed in three separately owned respective corporate-owned restaurants in Austin, two of them reportedly headquartered in Florida), permanently alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, dependably civil and law-abiding and honest, current criminal-law complainant and cited single male adult 64-year-old Anglo non-Hispanic victim in Austin Police Department Alleged Continuous Home-Invasion-Crimes-and-Alleged-Sex Crimes Case Number 21-0830533, which was activated by APD on March 24, 2021, inside the St. David's Medical Center in central Austin. The first-rate APD-assigned Sex Crimes Investigator for that crime case is APD Detective William Costello. The main phone number for the APD Sex Crimes Unit in Austin, Texas, is: (512) 974-5230.
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