My Reply Letter Today to Texas Assistant Attorney General James M. Graham in Austin, Texas

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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>

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Sent: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 10:02 PM

Subject: 4-23-24 Friendly Reply to TX Asst Atty Genl James Graham

To: Texas Assistant Attorney General James M. Graham, Attorney General of Texas state agency, Education and Enforcement Section, Open Records Division, P.O. Box 12548, Austin, Texas 78711-2548.

Office phone: (512) 463-2100.

April 23, 2024

Dear Texas Assistant Attorney General Graham,

Thank you for your very helpful and encouraging  April 18, 2024-dated e-mail  reply legal letter to me that contained a legal ruling from your state agency  you sent to me, with a carbon-copy of that letter having been addressed to an official of the Travis County DA's Office in Austin.

I especially appreciated this April 18 written statement of yours to me:

"If you feel the district attorney’s office has not complied with the ruling, you may send additional written comments to this office."

Your April 18 legal letter to me was in regard to my December 2023 Open Records Complaint to the Attorney General of Texas. 

My legal complaint alleged that the Open Records Coordinator for the Travis County District Attorney's Office in Austin allegedly failed to provide me with any written document  responsive to my  narrowly focused November 30, 2023, Open Records Request to that DA's Office.

(On December 28, 2023, your Attorney General of Texas Open Records Division assigned to that Open Records complaint from me the official identification number of  OR-23-103287-IC.)

My November 30, 2023,  public information request to the DA's Office in Austin had sought "'a copy of any and all documents on file with each applicable division or unit of your DA's Office that were each authored by someone other than me at any time since 9 a.m. January 1, 2021, and  which each  stated that I myself was or am victimized by  a felony crime."

As of  9:55 p.m. Mountain Time tonight, Tuesday, April 23, 2024,  I myself still have not received any legal document  from the Travis County DA's Office Open Records Coordinator -----or from  the Travis County Attorney's Office acting on behalf of Travis County DA Jose Garza's Open Records Coordinator ---that was directly and specifically responsive to my November 30, 2023, Open Records Request  to their county government agency in Austin.

Texas Assistant Attorney General Graham, I would appreciate receiving a follow-up letter from you in regard to whether your Open Records Division in Austin is able to obtain for me and directly send to me---- or have sent to me by the DA's Office or County Attorney's Office in Austin--- a copy of each of the specific  legal documents responsive to my November 30, 2023, request that you have specifically ordered the Travis County DA's Office to release to me.

Thank you in advance for your very kind assistance to me on this very important legal  issue  for me.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

Current Open Records  Complainant John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912,  Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

My Date of Birth: 4-27-1957. My Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska.

My cell phone number ever since August 2019: 

(512) 993-7305.

My current home phone number: (801) 355-0850.

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Mr. Graham, as a courtesy to yourself I am also sharing with you today the exact verbatim texts of the e-mail communications that your Attorney General of Texas state agency  sent to me on April 18, 2024:

From: "OpenRecordsAssistance" <OpenRecordsAssistance@oag.texas.gov>

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

Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 10:17 AM

Subject: Office of the Attorney General, Open Records Division ID# OR-23-103287-IC

Dear Mr. McMillan:

Please see the attached regarding ID# OR-23-103287-IC. 

If you have any questions, please call the Open Government Hotline at (877)-673-6839.

Sincerely,

Education and Enforcement Section

Open Records Division

PLEASE NOTE:  ORD does not respond to questions sent to this e-mail address.  If you need further assistance, please contact the Open Government Hotline at 1-877-673-6839.

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The exactly quoted attached legal  letter from you  I received after  downloading the following  legal letter of yours online:

April 18, 2024 

Mr. John Kevin McMillan  (a former Austin (TX) resident now residing in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a permanent resident of Utah ever since January 1, 2023).

Sent via e-mail. 

Dear Mr. McMillan:

 You requested assistance from the Office of the Attorney General (the “OAG”) in obtaining information from the Travis County District Attorney’s Office (the “district attorney’s office”) under the Public Information Act (the “Act”), chapter 552 of the Government Code. 

 Your correspondence was assigned ID# OR-23-103287-IC. 

The district attorney’s office requested a ruling from this office regarding the requested information and our office issued Open Records Letter No. 2023-043598 (2023) on December 21, 2023.  

Open Records Letter No. 2023-043598 concluded (1) with the exception of the information we marked for release, the district attorney’s office may withhold the information it marked under section 552.107(1) of the Government Code; (2) to the extent the e-mail addresses within the remaining information belong to members of the public and are not excluded by subsection 552.137(c) of the Government Code, the district attorney’s office must withhold such e-mail addresses under section 552.137 of the Government Code, unless the individuals to whom the e-mail addresses belong affirmatively consent to their release; and (3) the remaining information must be released. 

 Accordingly, as this office addressed the requested information in a letter ruling, we are closing our file on your complaint. 

If you feel the district attorney’s office has not complied with the ruling, you may send additional written comments to this office.

 Should you have any questions regarding this letter, please call the Open Government Hotline at (877) 673-6839.

 Sincerely,

 James M. Graham

 Assistant Attorney General

Education and Enforcement Section 

Open Records Division 

Post Office Box 12548, 

Austin, Texas 78711-2548 

(512) 463-2100 

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

JMG/cj 

Ref ID# OR-23-103287-IC

c: Susie Duttinger  

Open Records Division Coordinator 

Travis County District Attorney's Office 

Sent via e-mail.