MY WRITTEN RESPONSE TODAY TO THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STATE AGENCY OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL'S REQUEST THAT I PAY IT $498.60 IN EXCHANGE FOR APPLICABLE LEGAL DOCUMENTS REFERRING TO ME THAT ARE ON FILE WITH THAT STATE AGENCY'S OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL IN HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS:

 

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>

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Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 01:35:20 AM CDT

Subject: Re: PIR - John Kevin McMillan

September 14, 2021

Dear Office of the General Counsel Legal Staff Members for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice state agency in Huntsville,

Thank you for your September 13, 2021, e-mail letter to me that contained an attachment (below) providing me with an estimated cost to myself of "$498.60"  in exchange for your State Government of Texas agency providing me with a copy of  "any and all e-mail communications, reports, memoranda, or other written communications that were written or received or forwarded or FAXed or mailed at any time since April 1, 2011, by any staff member or attorney or administrator in your state-agency's Office of General Counsel in Huntsville, 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 requests are any and all e-mails that were directly sent by myself to your Office of General Counsel in Huntsville."

I had sought those legal documents from your Office of General Counsel in Huntsville in an August 28, 2021, public-information request I emailed to your state agency---a request that your state agency officially received on August 30, 2021.

I am very surprised by the amount of money you are seeking from me on this. Would you be willing to please confirm for me in writing that your state agency is aware that I myself do not have any criminal-conviction record, and that there are no pending felony charges or other pending criminal charges against me that your TDCJ headquarters has a record of?

Also, can you at least provide me with a tentative estimate of the total pages of legal documents referring to me at least once in any manner ---- excluding emails that were directly sent by me to your Office of General Counsel in Huntsville --- that your Office of General Counsel in Huntsville has written, received, forwarded, FAXed, or mailed at any time since April 1, 2011?

Also, would it reduce financial expenses that I incur from this public-information request if I provide you with either my social security number or the SID number that was apparently assigned to me by your state of Texas agency in 1991 in regard to an alleged "mischievous driving" case against me (a case in Sweetwater, Texas, relating to a pebble allegedly having been struck by a wheel of my car and having then allegedly flown over a tall fence and reportedly having then allegedly hit and allegedly broken a window of the home of a polite male adult Hispanic gentleman whom I myself never met in person or ever saw in person or ever spoke with at any time) that was later dismissed?

Finally, does your state agency ever assign a SID number to a Texan resident if that individual has not been convicted of any felony crime?

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

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor and former full-time employee in Austin for your very influential State of Texas agency.

My current rental-apartment-unit home address ever since June 21, 2019: Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.

John Kevin McMillan

On Monday, September 13, 2021, 05:00:34 PM CDT, OGC Open Records <ogcopenrecords@tdcj.texas.gov> wrote:

Good afternoon,

 

Attached you will find the cost estimate for your Public Information Request dated, August 30, 2021.

 

Thank you,

 

Office of the General Counsel-TDCJ

P: (936) 437-6700

 

 

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