Tuesday, September 28, 2021

THE POLITE REPLY LETTER THAT I WROTE AND SENT TODAY TO THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT OPEN RECORDS UNIT IN THIS STATE-CAPITAL CITY FOR TEXAS:

 

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 06:16:52 PM CDT
Subject: Re: [Austin Public Records Center] :: R060576-061621

September 28, 2021

Dear Open Records Unit Staff for the Austin Police Department in Austin, Texas,

Thank you for your updated reply message I received from you on September 27, 2021, in response to my June 16, 2021, online Open Records request at your official City of Austin Open Records Center website address. The ID number you had assigned to that June 16 request from me is: R060576-061621.

Your reply message to me yesterday apparently states that you have "no responsive information" in regard to which APD employees or APD officers or APD administrators at your APD Forensic Science Division center at 812 Springdale Road in Austin had specifically determined during the period since June 21, 2019, that "one or more of the infrared motion-sensitive photographs in APD's possession that were generated for me at my own financial expense during my bedtime hours from inside the bedroom of my current solo-occupancy rental apartment unit, Apt. 2418 at Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive in northeast Austin, APPEARED TO BE OF SOMEONE OTHER THAN MYSELF."

I would like to respectfully point out that your APD Open Records Unit's written response to my online January 24, 2020, public-information request to APD (ID number R031781-012420) provided me with nine separate infrared motion-sensitive photo images of a variety of persons who each specifically did not appear to be me, and who were each physically present inside my current bedroom of my current-double-bolt-locked solo-occupancy efficiency apartment unit during my sleeping hours at nighttime.

Does your reply letter to me yesterday possibly indicate that one or more City of Austin employees who do not work for APD, or some other individual who does not work for the City of Austin, identified the nine total APD-verified infrared motion-sensitive photos obtained for me during my sleeping hours from inside my current bedroom of my current apartment unit at Pebble Creek Apartments, that your Austin Police Department has already confirmed for me in writing as appearing to be of someone other than me?

Otherwise, does your reply letter to me yesterday indicate that the determination about the cited nine separate crime-evidence photos from my current apartment's bedroom not appearing to be of myself, was made by an APD or City of Austin employee employed or stationed at a location other than the APD Forensic Science Division center along Springdale Road?


Thank you in advance for your helpful reply letter to me on this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.
My date of birth: April 27, 1957. My place of birth: Lincoln, Nebraska. 
My current solo-occupancy efficiency-apartment unit home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive,  Bldg. 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.

John Kevin McMillan


On Monday, September 27, 2021, 09:28:15 AM CDT, Austin Public Records Center <austintx@govqa.us> wrote:




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Re: Open Record Request of June 16, 2021, Reference # R060576-061621

Dear Mr. John Kevin McMillan,

The Austin Police Department (APD) received a Public Information request from you on June 16, 2021, to request copies of records pertaining to the following:

“I hereby request a copy of any document on file with APD's Forensic Science Division, 812 Springdale Road in Austin, that cites the name of each APD employee or APD officer or APD administrator in that division who specifically determined at any time since June 21, 2019---including anytime this month ----that one or more of the infrared motion-sensitive photographs in APD's possession that were generated for me at my own financial expense during my bedtime hours from inside the bedroom of my current solo-occupancy rental apartment unit, Apt. 2418 at Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive in northeast Austin, APPEARED TO BE OF SOMEONE OTHER THAN MYSELF.

I have lived alone and have always slept alone in my current always-bolt-locked second-floor efficiency rental apartment unit in Building 17, situated near the northeastern corner of the Pebble Creek Apartments gated-community complex, ever since the early afternoon of June 21, 2019. I am a longtime celibate-by-choice (including ever since the day I moved to north Austin in August 2001), gainfully-employed, permanently drinking-alcohol-free, facially-cleanshaven, permanently-marijuana-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, lifelong-vaping-free, dependably civil and law-abiding and law-enforcement-minded single adult white Anglo-Saxon gentleman.

Below, please find the exact verbatim text of a January 31, 2020, reply letter to me from your APD Open Records Unit that referred to your having eight photos obtained from inside my current apartment unit that appear to be of someone other than me.

On 1/31/2020 9:41:58 AM, Austin Public Records Center wrote:
Subject: [Austin Public Records Center] :: R031781-012420
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Re: Public Information Request of January 24, 2020, Reference # R031781-012420; 16-1340923

Dear John McMillan,

The Austin Police Department received a Public Information request from you on January 24, 2020, to request copies of records pertaining to the following:

“16-1340923:a copy of 20 of the motion-sensitive-infrared-spy-camera photographs obtained for me during my bedtime hours inside any or each of my three respective rental-housing units in 2019 --- crime-evidence photos that were provided by me that year to the Austin Police Department for APD Case 16-1340923 ---- and that, in the case of each such photo, contained an image of at least one person who DID NOT APPEAR to be myself, John Kevin McMillan, I being a white male Anglo-Saxon English-Scottish-German-ancestry American citizen and gray-haired-and-brown-haired single longtime-celibate senior-citizen gentleman of medium build, about six-feet-tall, my face not narrow in shape, my eyebrows not thin, my eyes not slanted, my nostrils not flaring, my weight approximately 210 pounds, my date of birth April 27, 1957, and my city of birth Lincoln, Nebraska.”

The City of Austin has responsive information for your request. Please log in to the Open Records Center at the following link to download the responsive records.

Austin Police Department - R031781-012420

Please be advised the website only allows for two downloads of your files, once you have opened your files please save a copy for your records

Thank you for contacting the City of Austin.

Open Records Unit
Austin Police Department”


A thorough search of records of the Austin Police Department provided no responsive information.

Thank you for contacting the Austin Police Department.

Open Records Unit
Austin Police Department

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

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