The Courtesy Follow-Up Letter I Wrote and Sent Today on My November 14, 2023, Policy Documents-focused Public Information Request to the Austin (TX) Police Department

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Sent: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM

Subject: My 11-14-23 Policy Docs PIR: Austin (TX) Police Dept

From permanently alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, gainfully employed  public information requestor John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111. My cell phone: (512) 993-7305. My home phone: (801) 355-0850. My Date of Birth: 4-27-1957. My Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska.

November 14, 2023

A respectful FYI to each of you vigilant and pro-law-enforcement government officials and first-rate law-enforcement officers on the  most recent  public information request (below) that I submitted online at 5:20 p.m. Mountain Time today (Tuesday, November 14) to the Austin (TX) Police Department at their official website. 

I wrote and submitted this information  request today from my fully- locked and bolt-locked  solo-occupancy rental  apartment unit in Salt Lake City, Utah:

"(I am seeking:)

"(1) A copy of  one currently applicable document or record or policy on file with the Austin (TX) Police Department (APD) that specifically states the circumstances in which, or criteria that have to be met for, state law in Texas, federal law, an ordinance of the  City of Austin, an APD policy,  or an ordinance of  Travis County Government to require full multi-month retroactive forensic DNA-evidence tracing for the maximum possible retroactive tracing period of 180 days or longer  on the entire contents of a  Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence kit---either a kit that had been obtained from a self-identified  rape victim in Austin who stated to APD that he or she wanted to press criminal-law charges, or a kit that had been obtained from a suspected  rapist.

"(2) A copy of a currently applicable document or record or currently applicable policy on file with APD that states the specific criteria that have to be met for APD to classify or re-classify an alleged Home-Invasion Sexual Assault Crimes case as a CONTlNUOUS Home-Invasion Sex Crimes case, or that states the specific criteria that have to be met for APD to classify or re-classify a Sexual Assault Crime case as a CONTINUOUS Sex Crimes case.

"(3) A copy of a current document on file with APD which cites the criteria that have to be met for a crime case to be either classified or re-classified with some type of specific wording  or terminology as a 'Somnophilia' or 'Somnophiliac' Sexual Assault case  ---- an alleged Sexual Assault case in which the victim was held unconscious throughout  or was asleep throughout or was unconscious throughout that alleged sex crime."

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(Below is computer-generated reply letter from APD that  I received today in response to the above most recent online public information request of mine to that municipal law enforcement agency in Austin, Texas. Austin is the city in Texas where I resided when I permanently relocated to Utah  on December 31, 2021, through  a  commercial airplane flight I took  from Austin, Texas, to the Salt Lake City area of Salt Lake County.)

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To: "mcmillanj@att.net" <mcmillanj@att.net>

Sent: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 5:20 PM

Subject: Public Information Act Request :: R118544-111423

Dear Mr. John Kevin McMillan:

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