It seems like only yesterday when I exchanged e-mails in April and May of 2009 with "Texas Commission on the Arts" state agency Deputy Director Jim Bob McMillan.
Jim Bob McMillan, who is apparently not related to me in any way, indicated to me in writing on May 5, 2009, that with the exception of the text of my April 25, 2009, Open Records Request (last item, below) to his state agency in Austin, his State of Texas agency had no documents on file that referred to me in any context.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>
To: "Texas Commission on the Arts Deputy Director Jim Bob McMillan" <jbmcmillan@arts.state.tx.us>, "State Rep. Donna Howard" <donna.howard@house.state.tx.us>, "StateComptrollerSusanCombs" <window@cpa.state.tx.us>, "Texas Atty Genl Open Records Coordinator" <publicrecords@oag.state.tx.us>, "AttorneyGeneralofTexas" <cac@oag.state.tx.us>, "Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell" <lee.leffingwell@ci.austin.tx.us>, "CityManagerMarcOtt" <marc.ott@ci.austin.tx.us>, "ColonelThomasDavis" <pio@txdps.state.tx.us>, "FBI National Academy Officials" <info@fbinaa.org>, "U.S. Dept of Justice" <ask.ocfo@usdoj.gov>, "CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla" <david.escamilla@co.travis.tx.us>, "UT-AustinAssocLegalVPLeeSmith" <lsmith@austin.utexas.edu>, "Texas A&M System Communications Officers" <syscomm@tamu.edu>, "Texas A&M Asst. Vice Chancellor David Rejino" <drejino@tamu.edu>, "FederalCommunicationsCommission" <fccinfo@fcc.gov>, "U.S.Dept.CommerceFOI Office" <efoia@doc.gov>, "U.S. Dept of Commerce Civil Rights Div Officials" <webmaster@doc.gov>, "Texas Conference of Churches Admin. Asst. Maria Ramirez" <tcc@txconfchurches.org>, "Gov'sOfficeAttyChelseaThornton" <chelsea.thornton@governor.state.tx.us>, "StateSenatorKirkWatson" <kirk.watson@senate.state.tx.us>, "ACLU of Massachusetts" <info@aclum.org>, "Humanities Texas" <info@humanitiestexas.org>, "Texas Humanities Editor Martin Kohout" <mkohout@humanitiestexas.org>, "Council Member Mike Martinez" <mike.martinez@ci.austin.tx.us>, "Council Member Laura Morrison" <laura.morrison@ci.austin.tx.us>, "Council Member Randi Shade" <randi.shade@ci.austin.tx.us>, "Council Member Sheryl Cole" <sheryl.cole@ci.austin.tx.us>, "CityAttorneyDavid Smith" <david.smith@ci.austin.tx.us>, "Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg" <district.attorney@co.travis.tx.us>, "Norma Hilbig" <Norma.Almaraz@co.travis.tx.us>, "Travis County DA's Office Paralegal" <norma.hilbig@co.travis.tx.us>, "TexasRepublicanPartyMainOffice" <info@texasgop.org>, "TravisCountyRepublicanPartyExecDir.(Austin)" <mdavis@goptracpac.org>, "TravisCountyRepublicanParty(Austin)" <edwards.r8@gmail.com>, "NationalWritersUnionOfficials" <nwu@nwu.org>, "ACLU of Texas" <info@aclutx.org>, "KEYE Television News (Austin, TX)" <news@keyetv.com>, "KVUE Television Newstips" <news@kvue.com>, "FreedomofInfoFdnofTexas" <foift@foift.org>, "privacyint@privacy.org" <privacyint@privacy.org>, "Mass. Dept. Mental Health Privacy and Compliance Official Jamie Curtis" <dmhinfo@dmh.state.ma.us>, "TX Dept of State Health Services Legal Complaints" <customer.service@dshs.state.tx.us>, "TXDept.LicensingandRegulationLegalContractsOffice" <CS.Legal.Service.Contracts@license.state.tx.us>, "TRA General Counsel Glen Garey" <g2@tramail.org>, "U.S. EPA General Counsel" <webmaster.ogc@epa.gov>, "TCEQLegalServicesOffice" <ac@tceq.state.tx.us>, "StateBarGeneralCounselElizabethRogers" <Elizabeth.Rogers@TexasBar.com>, "NationalEndowmentforHumanities" <foia@neh.gov>, "Carter Center for Human Rights" <carterweb@emory.edu>, "Physicians for Human Rights Officials" <kcarspecken@phrusa.org>, "American Civil Rights Institute" <todd@bollenbach.com>, "Mass. Dist. Attorneys Assn." <webmail@daa.state.ma.us>, "EMMISCommunicationsGeneralCounsel Ian Arnold" <iarnold@emmis.com>, "Media Ethics Magazine Editor" <Editor@mediaethics.com>, "Fairness and Accuracy in the Media" <fair@fair.org>, "TEA Commr Shirley Neeley" <teainfo@tea.state.tx.us>, "USDeptofHealthHuServicesCivilRightsOffice" <ocrcomplaint@hhs.gov>, "USDeptofHealthHumanServices" <ask@hhs.gov>, "CentersforDiseaseControl(U.S.Govt.)" <cdcinfo@cdc.gov>, "U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office)" <TX_Webmanager@hud.gov>, "WashingtonPostLettersEditor" <letters@washpost.com>, "WashingtonPostOpedEditors" <outlook@washpost.com>, "National Assembly of State Arts Agencies" <nasaa@nasaa-arts.org>, "Nebraska Arts Council" <aalston@nebraskaartscouncil.org>, "Quincy (Mass.) Police Dept. Chief Paul Keenan" <qpdinfo@ci.quincy.ma.us>, "Quincy (MA) City Solicitor Timmins" <jtimmins@ci.quincy.ma.us>, "Lincoln (NE) Mayor's Office" <Mayor@ci.lincoln.ne.us>, "Lincoln(NE)Mayor Chris Beutler" <mayor@lincoln.ne.gov>, "University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Alumni Assn" <alumni@unlalum.nebraska.edu>, "JournalofDisputeResolution(UofMissouri)" <Christina.Semmer@mizzou.edu>, "Association for the Prevention of Torture" <apt@apt.ch>, "Assn. for the Prevention of Torture" <vploton@apt.ch>, "UniversityofMinnesotaAlumniAssoc." <umalumni@umn.edu>, "humanrts@umn.edu" <humanrts@umn.edu>, "HumanRightsWatchOfficials(D.C. Office)" <hrwdc@hrw.org>
Sent: Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Subject: reply letter sought from Jim Bob McMillan re: TX Commission on the Arts Open Records
Dear Deputy Director Jim Bob McMillan at the Texas Commission on the Arts state agency in Austin,
This is a polite reminder to you that I still have not received a reply letter from you in response to my May 13, 2009-dated (see below) follow-up note to yourself.
I hope to hear from you very soon about this important public-information-related legal matter for your State of Texas agency and for myself.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a law-abiding native of Lincoln, Nebraska, who has myself resided in Texas ever since January 1988, most recently, after I resided in north Quincy, Massachusetts, for portions of the mid- and late 1980s.
My mailing address: 11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
Blog: http://johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com
with several carbon-copies.
John Kevin McMillan
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
To: jbmcmillan@arts.state.tx.us; State Rep. Donna Howard <donna.howard@house.state.tx.us>; FreedomofInfoFdnofTexas <foift@foift.org>; Gov'sOfficeAttyChelseaThornton <chelsea.thornton@governor.state.tx.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:49:20 PM
Subject: Re: TX Commission on the Arts Open Records
To: Mr. Jim Bob McMillan, Deputy Director, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin.
May 13, 2009
Dear Mr. McMillan,
I apologize to you for sending you this belated follow-up letter in response to the actual text of your reply E-mail letter (see below) to me that was dated May 5, 2009.
My follow-up question to you today is simply this:
Mr. McMillan, would you be willing to please clarify a portion of your May 5 reply letter to me by stating your reply to me in the correct style in accordance with the Texas Open Records Act.
I would appreciate your stating to me whether you do (or do not) have any documents or any other items that are responsive to any or either portion of my April 25-dated Open Records request to your state agency in Austin.
Thank you in advance for your very helpful reply note about this one additional point that I would like to respectfully raise at this time.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan,
11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
Blog: http://johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com
cc: State Rep. Donna Howard, Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislature.
Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Austin.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, Office of the Governor of Texas, Austin.
John Kevin McMillan
From: Jim Bob McMillan <jbmcmillan@arts.state.tx.us>
To: mcmillanj@att.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 12:11:48 PM
Subject: Re: TX Commission on the Arts Open Records
May 5, 2009
Dear Mr. McMillan:
Thank you for your Open Records request for information about the Texas Commission on the Arts.
After an exhaustive search of our records that we have at our disposal, we have determined that with the exception of your recent letter requesting information, we have no other record of transactions with John Kevin McMillan. The Texas Commission on the Arts is subject to the Texas State Records Retention Schedule, so there are some limitations on the materials we can search through. You can learn more about the Texas State Records Retention Schedule at this site: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/slrm/recordspubs/rrs3.pdf
To learn more about the Texas Commission on the Arts, I suggest that you take a look at our Website that can be found at www.arts.state.tx.us. This site is referred to as TCAnet, and it is loaded with information, resources, links, and all of the information about our programs and services.
If you need to ask any questions or to get more information, please feel free to contact me. You can reach me in Austin at (512) 936-6572, or you can send me e-mail at jimbob.mcmillan@state.arts.tx.us.
Thank you again for your inquiry. If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to call.
Sincerely,
Jim Bob McMillan
Deputy Director
At 06:37 PM 4/25/2009 -0700, you wrote:
To: Mr. Jim Bob McMillan,
Deputy Director,
Texas Commisssion on the Arts (TCA),
P.O. Box 13406,
Austin, Texas 78711-3406;
or (street address address) E.O. Thompson Building,
920 Colorado Street,
5th Floor,
Austin, Texas, 78701
E-mail: jbm@arts.state.tx.us
April 25, 2009
Dear Mr. McMillan,
This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from your State of Texas agency in Austin a photocopy of any and all letters, reports, memoranda, computer records, E-mail correspondence, handwritten notes, printed documents, legal actions, available transcripts of audiotapes or videotapes, telephone records, or any other items, that refer to myself, John Kevin McMillan, in any context or any way, and that, in each such case:
(1) at any time since January 1, 1997, were received or produced or generated or compiled or stored or sent or authored or written by any employee or official employed in the office of the Executive Director of the Texas Commission on the Arts state agency, including the Executive Director himself;
(2) contained or referred to actions taken or to items for planned discussion or to proposed action that had been placed on the agenda of any of the Texas Commission on the Arts meetings----including any items discussed or acted upon during any executive sessions of that commission-----that were held at any time since January 1, 1997.
My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 27, 1957. My social security number is....
I have resided in Austin proper ever since mid-March of 1997, most recently.
I am submitting this Open Records request to your state agency partly because I have heard numerous rumors in Austin that some State of Texas agency has reportedly had some alleged involvement in alleged impingements upon my own privacy rights, such as through alleged electronic surveillance or alleged audiotaping or alleged videotaping of myself, or through alleged verbalized communications to myself or alleged "educational services" inflicted on myself or alleged noise pollution and verbal harassment and verbal abuse inflicted on myself against my wishes that I definitely do not want or need.
I myself am not employed by or affiliated with any arts and entertainment institution or organization or any arts-and-entertainment business entity, as I'm sure your state agency is already very aware.
Thank you in advance for your prompt and very diligent response to this Open Records request from myself.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan,
11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
Blog; http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com
cc: State Rep. Donna Howard, my duly elected state legislator, Texas House of Representatives.
State Senator Kirk Watson, an attorney member of the State Bar of Texas who is my duly elected state senator, Texas Senate.
John Kevin McMillan
Jim Bob McMillan
Deputy Director
Texas Commission on the Arts
PO Box 13406
Austin, TX 78711-3406
Direct Line: 512-936-6572
Switchboard: 512-463-5535 extension 66572
e-mail: jimbob.mcmillan@arts.state.tx.us
http://www.arts.state.tx.us/
"Let each man exercise the art he knows."
Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
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