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Sent: Friday, October 8, 2021, 09:49:01 PM CDT
Subject: Re: Request for Attorney General Letter Ruling and First Production
To: Benita M. Reyes, Legal Assistant,
Office of General Counsel,
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) state agency,
1200 East Anderson Lane, Austin, TX 78752.
October 8, 2021
Dear Ms. Reyes,
Thank you for your reply e-mail letter to me today (last item, below) in response to my recent public-information request to your State Government of Texas agency that your agency has stated to me that you officially received on September 23, 2021.
That public-information request of mine had been e-mailed by me to your state agency on August 31, 2021, and sought from your state agency "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."
Ms. Reyes, I also want to thank you for the numerous attachments of legal documents you are willing to release to me that you have provided to me today as an accompaniment to your e-mail reply letter.
Among those attachments you e-mailed to me today is an October 7, 2021, signed legal letter (directly below) to the Attorney General of Texas on official THECB stationery.
In that legal letter, your THECB state agency's General Counsel, Ms. Nichole Bunker-Henderson, cited "attorney-client privilege" in seeking official permission from the Attorney General to withhold from me an unspecified number of legal documents that are responsive to my most recent public-information request.
Thank you again for your reply letter. I will carefully review each of the numerous attachments you have chosen to share with me today.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor and an alumnus of Stephen F. Austin High School of the Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas; The University of Texas at Austin; and The University of Minnesota Graduate School of Journalism and Communications in Minneapolis.
My solo-occupancy efficiency-rental-home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Bldg. 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
___________________________
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL
P.O. Box 12788 Austin, Texas 78711
HARRISON KELLER, PH.D.
Commissioner of Higher Education
512.427.6101
NICHOLE BUNKER-HENDERSON
General Counsel
512.427.6297
Nichole.Bunker-Henderson@highered.texas.gov
LESLI G. GATTIS
Deputy General Counsel
512.427.6143
Lesli.Gattis@highered.texas.gov
Fax: 512.427.6127
Website: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
October 7, 2021
Open Records Division
Office of the Attorney General
P.O. Box 12548
Austin, TX 78711
Re: THECB PIR 2022-09 (JMcMillan)
To Whom it May Concern:
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) received the attached and above-referenced request for information on Thursday, September 23, 2021. The THECB submits this request within the ten-business day timeframe pursuant to the Texas Public Information Act (PIA).
THECB has identified responsive information that may fall under the attorney-client privilege.
Accordingly, THECB submits this request for a ruling, to withhold these communications.
THECB will produce information and documents that are responsive and not potentially confidential or exempt from disclosure to the requestor in a timely manner. By copy of this letter, the requestor is advised of THECB’s request for a letter ruling.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Regards,
(Signature for NBHenderson)
Nichole Bunker-Henderson
General Counsel
Nichole.Bunker-Henderson@highered.texas.gov
Attachment: Copy of request for information
cc:
John Kevin McMillan, mcmillanj@att.net (Requestor)
John Kevin McMillan
On Friday, October 8, 2021, 10:03:11 AM CDT, Reyes, Benita <benita.reyes@highered.texas.gov> wrote:
Dear John McMillan,
Please be advised that the attached correspondence was submitted to the Open Records Division of the Office of the Attorney General (ORD) yesterday.
Responsive information that THECB does not consider privileged is also attached.
Thank you,
Benita M. Reyes
Legal Assistant, Office of General Counsel
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1200 E. Anderson Lane | Austin, Texas 78752
www.highered.texas.gov/studentcomplaints
http://www.highered.texas.gov/
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