Saturday, December 25, 2021

MY CHRISTMAS DAY MESSAGE TODAY TO THE TRAVIS COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA:

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
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Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2021, 02:30:33 AM CST
Subject: Re: 12-3-21 PIR re: Travis County Attorney's Office and me

December 25, 2021

Dear Travis County Attorney's Office Open Records Coordinator in Austin, Texas,

It is now Christmas Day, and I do not have any record of having received any reply letter from you in response to the following Dec. 2 public-information request (below) from me that you officially received on December 3, 2021.

In that regard, I specifically have not received any written communication from you stating that you plan to officially request to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that he officially permit you to withhold from me some, several, or numerous legal documents that are responsive to my December 2, 2021-dated e-mail request.

I hope you and your colleagues in Travis County Government have a joyous, prosperous, and healthful Holiday Season and New Year!

I will look forward to receiving your reply letter on this at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, requestor. My date of birth: 4-27-1957. My place of birth: Lincoln, Nebraska.
My solo-occupancy (only me), double-bolt-locked, efficiency apartment-unit rental-home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apts. (a very large gated-community complex), 8805 North Plaza Drive, Bldg. 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

John Kevin McMillan


On Thursday, December 2, 2021, 10:50:29 PM CST, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:


To:  Open Records Division,

Travis County Attorney’s Office (TCAO),

5th Floor Reception Desk,

314 W. 11th Street,

Granger Building,

Austin, Texas 78701

FAX: 512-854-4808

Main phone number for the TCAO: (512) 854-9415

 Date: E-mailed by me to your public law office on the night of the night of December 2, 2021, and officially received by your public law-office on Friday, December 3, 2021

Dear Open Records Coordinator for the Travis County Attorney's Office,

I am seeking to obtain from you a copy of any and all e-mail communications and other written communications, and any and all phone messages, that were or are generated, received, written, sent, forwarded, mailed, or FAXed at any time from 8 a.m. November 1, 2021, through 8 a.m. Friday, December 3, 2021, by Travis County Attorney Delia Garza or any other attorney or administrator or other staff member in the Travis County Attorney's Office here in Austin, and that, in each such case, referred at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin.

EXCLUDED from the scope of this public-information request are any and all written communications that were specifically e-mailed to the Travis County Attorney's Office directly by myself.

My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I was born on April 27, 1957, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Ever since January of 1988, I have resided in Texas on a continuous and uninterrupted basis. 

This public-information request was prompted by an unexpected development relating to each of the two most recent public-information requests focused on myself that I wrote and submitted this calendar year to your public-law office in Austin.

Your county attorney's office in Austin responded to each of those public-information requests of mine from 2021 by sending an official legal letter to the Attorney General of Texas. In each of those legal letters, your public law office sought official permission to withhold from me documents responsive to my information request that involved communications within your County Attorney's Office in regard to me by staff members and attorneys in your office; consultation of your County Attorney's Office in regard to me by Travis County Judge Andy Brown; and consultation of your public law office in regard to me by a prosecuting attorney for the Travis County District Attorney's Office and two staff members in the DA's Office. One of the two legal letters your office submitted to the Attorney General this year also sought to withhold from me documents referring to consultation of your County Attorney's office by Travis County Auditor Patti Smith in a context directly referring to me by name.

This public-information request was also prompted by two carbon-copies I shared with your County Attorney's Office of two separate written complaints I officially filed on December 1, 2021, with the Inspector General of the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency here in Austin. One of those two respective complaints cited the alleged failure by the Texas DPS Office of General Counsel to send me any reply letter responsive to a late October of 2021 public-information request of mine to the DPS that contained the subject heading of: "10-27-21 DPS PIR re: legality of cited ongoing electronic surveillance, ongoing anonymous verbal communications".

This public-information request was also prompted by a recent apartment-security-related, safe-housing-theme telephone conversation I had on October 20, 2021, with Miguel Lopez, Administrative Specialist of the Displacement Prevention Division of the Housing and Planning Department of the City Government of Austin. Mr. Lopez stated to me that he recommends installation of a sliding bolt lock to the front door of my currently double-bolt-locked front door for my current solo-occupancy efficiency rental-apartment unit at Pebble Creek Apartments in northeast Austin. I live alone inside that efficiency rental-housing unit.

Patrick B. Howard, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Travis County Housing Authority, stated to me on the telephone on October 29, 2019, during a local phone conversation I had with him in which Mr. Howard either directly canceled or referred to his having cancelled a scheduled in-person meeting with him that would have occurred later that day at between 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., at his County Housing Authority office at 502 East Highland Mall Blvd., Suite 106-B, in north Austin: "We (the Travis County Housing Authority) don't necessarily provide that type (safe-living conditions housing)." Mr. Howard then added in that same October 29 phone conversation I had with him:  "You (John Kevin McMillan) may be over our (financial-income-eligibility) threshold for public housing."

I have resided in Austin proper (this state capital city for Texas) on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March of 1997. I have been and continue to be gainfully employed on a continuous basis in the restaurant industry in the Austin area ever since April 27, 2002.
I have resided alone on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since June 21, 2019, as the only management-team-approved official tenant and the only management-team-approved occupant in Apt. 2418 of Building 17 at Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, in northeast Austin. My current official six-month lease agreement for Apartment 2418 ends at 11:59 p.m. December 31, 2021. 

I am a longtime-celibate-by-choice (including ever since the day I moved to north Austin in August 2001), single-by-choice, permanently-alcohol-free (ever since 1990), marijuana-free (ever since 1984) and very anti-marijuana-minded, lifelong-tobacco-free and very anti-tobacco-minded, platonicly-polite, privacy-respectful, non-stalking, dependably civil and law-abiding and very honest, facially-cleanshaven Anglo-Saxon senior-citizen gentleman of English, Scottish, and German ancestry. 

I have never on any occasion ever once had any invited overnight visitor inside my current apartment unit, Apt. 2418 at Pebble Creek Apartments. I do everything I can to lawfully and in a civil manner keep anyone and everyone away from any portion of the interior of my current double-bolt-locked efficiency apartment unit anytime between the hours of 8 p.m. at nighttime and 8 a.m. in the morning. 
The ONLY exceptions I have ever made on that very firm policy of mine have been for on-duty Austin Police Department officers occasionally obtaining crime evidence from me inside my efficiency unit or obtaining a lost-and-found item from me that I had reported to APD on the phone; or on-duty Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services staff members directly responding to a 911 phone call from me in which I had requested to be taken by ambulance to a hospital for an unexpected medical crisis, such as repeated vomiting, that I had personally experienced.

I hope to hear from you soon in response to this December 3, 2021, public-information request from myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, public-information requestor.
Pebble Creek Apts., 8805 N. Plaza Drive, Bldg. 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.


John Kevin McMillan

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