Friday, November 30, 2018

TRAVIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA, ON NOVEMBER 28, 2018, RECEIVES POLITELY-WORDED PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST FOCUSED ON SIX HIGH-RANKING DA'S OFFICE REPS AND ME OVER THE COURSE OF THE APPROXIMATELY TWO-YEAR PERIOD EVER SINCE THE NEW TRAVIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, MARGARET MOORE, WAS OFFICIALLY SWORN INTO THAT ELECTIVE OFFICE ON JANUARY 3, 2017


From: John McMillan

To: DAOpenRecordsRequests@traviscountytx.gov ; Gerald Daugherty ; Texas Legal legal-aid service (2015) ; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; Public Information ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov ; FBI Dallas Bureau ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) ; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon) ; State Comptroller Criminal Investigations Division Chief Martin Cano ; Gina Hinojosa ; Kirk Watson ; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016) ; Florida Sexual Crimes Investigators Assoc Pres. Minton (2016) ; Florida Sexual Crimes Investigators Assn. Exec Dir Moore (2016) ; Minnesota Sex Crimes Investigators Assn. Brd Member Dunphy (2016) ; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; TRA General Counsel Kenneth Besserman ; joe.moody@house.texas.gov ; district9@austintexas.gov ; Casework Mccaul ; central_texas@cruz.senate.gov ; cruz_press@cruz.senate.gov ; Texas Department of Health and Human Services Ombudsman ; Rainn Info ; Safeplace Info ; Safeaustin Info ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President ; TBPP General Counsel Bettie Wells ; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015) ; District 8 ; Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016) ; district6@austintexas.gov ; Austin City Auditor QA Coordinator (2016) ; Superintendent ; The University of Texas at Austin ; ACC President Richard Rhodes ; ACLU ; Dawnna Dukes ; State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez (Austin area) ; StateRep.DonnaHoward ; statesman ; Texas Observer Editors ; Austin Chronicle Editors ; news@cbsaustin.com ; KXAN TV News Investigations ; Williamson County (TX) Attorney (2016) ; Travis County Intergovernmental Relations Coordinator Eckstein ; jalayne.robinson@tdcaa.com ; robert.kepple@tdcaa.com ; Houston Police Dept (2015) ; Cedar Park (TX) Police (2016) ; Leander Police Chief Minton ; Pflugerville (TX) Police Chief Charles Hooker (2016) ; martina.st.louis@austintexas.gov ; APD Officer Dean Tran ; justin.newsom@austintexas.gov ; Attorney Cousin Jack Dane ; smccown@law.utexas.edu ; Cousin Jim Dane ; Cousin Jim Dane ; IowaAttyGeneralTomMiller

Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 10:53:54 PM CST


Subject: 11-28-18 PIR re: six high-ranking TC DA's Office reps and me

To: Open Records Coordinator,
Travis County District Attorney's Office,
Travis County Government,
Street address:
509 West 11th Street,
Suite 1.700,
Austin, TX 78701
Mailing address:
P.O. BOX 1748,
Austin, TX 78767
Office FAX: 512-854-9534

Main phone number of the Travis County District Attorney's Office:
(512) 854-9400.

November 28, 2018

Dear Travis County District Attorney's Office Open Records Requests Administrator in Austin, Texas,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from you a copy of any and all e-mail communications that respective high-ranking officials Don Clemmer, Gregg Cox, Dayna Blazey, Mike Lummus, Beverly Matthews, and Dexter Gilford of your Travis County District Attorney's Office in Austin, Texas, have each written or received at any time since January 3, 2017, and that, in each and every such case, referred at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.

EXCLUDED from the scope of this public-information request are any and all written communications that were exclusively and solely written by myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.

I am a gainfully-employed, permanently-drinking-alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, single adult Anglo male resident of the same county government precinct---precinct 3---in which Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daugherty resides. Mr. Daugherty, a Republican, reportedly is the primary county commissioner who officially represents me on the Travis County Commissioners Court.

On September 14, 2018, I received a surprising E-mail letter from Travis County Assistant County Attorney Ann-Marie Sheely. That letter directly stated to me in writing for the first time ever that County Commissioner Daugherty's office in recent years sought and obtained legal advice from attorneys of the Travis County Attorney's Office in regard to myself.

That disclosure to me was offered in the context of an official September 14, 2018, signed legal letter submitted by Ms. Sheely to the Attorney General of Texas on behalf of Commissioner Daugherty, a copy of which was provided to me by Ms. Sheely. Her legal letter sought official permission from that state agency for County Commissioner Daugherty to withhold from me records of those legal consultations his office had had with the county attorney's office in regard to myself.

On April 27, 2015, a birthday for me, I was interviewed in person at your Travis County District Attorney's Office by two DA's Office "Critical Incident Unit" investigators, Lt. Roger Dean and Sergeant Jose Ballesteros.

On September 26, 2014, I signed for and received inside the Balcones Post Office along Jollyville Road in northwest Austin a certified-delivery official September 23, 2014-dated, signed legal letter on official Travis County District Attorney's Office letterhead that was directly addressed to me.

That letter was written and signed by Travis County Assistant District Attorney Rob Drummond. That official DA's Office letter addressed to me directly cited "your complaint of December 18, 2013, regarding the conduct of the Austin Police Department."

That same certified-delivery legal letter to me from your DA's Office in Austin also stated, among other things, that "Our inquiry revealed that APD continues to maintain the evidence gathered on December 22, 2011. In addition, they have noted that the Travis County District Attorney's Office has requested the said evidence continue to be maintained. This resolves our inquiry. As we explained to you, the decision as to how to utilize investigative resources in a sexual assault allegation falls within the purview of the Austin Police Department. Therefore, we believe our involvement in this matter is concluded and our office will take no further action.
"Sincerely,
"Rob Drummond
"Assistant District Attorney
"Travis County".

My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. I was born on April 27, 1957, at Lincoln, Nebraska.

I have resided in Austin proper on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.

I am a former full-time employee here in Austin of the "Texas Department of Public Safety" state law-enforcement agency. I am also a former full-time employee here in Austin for the "Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles" and the "Texas Department of Criminal Justice" state agencies, respectively.

I am also the founder and only current approved member of a new and non-Christian and implicitly-deistic "Honor Society" religion --- a religion publicized on local community-access television throughout the greater Austin area around the turn of the century. Several persons in the Austin area have told me they either dislike my religion intensely or do not regard it as comprising an actual or true religion.

That religion of mine is anti-drinking-alcohol and anti-tobacco and anti-marijuana, anti-medical-marijuana, anti-facial-hair-minded, anti-tattoos-minded, opposed to anonymous communications that are inflicted on someone against his wishes, opposed to deliberately fraudulent communications, anti-noise-pollution-minded, anti-thought-control-projects-minded, and anti-stalking, and also adamantly opposed to sexual assaults.

My religion, the "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", has very stringent membership-eligibility guidelines.

During the time period applicable to this public information request, I myself resided as an official rent-paying tenant or official rent-paying occupant at the following apartment units:

---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apt. 902, Austin, Texas, 78759, the home address for me from late September 2015 until early September 2017.


---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, Texas, 78759, the home address for me ever since early September 2017, including at present.

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


Please let me know as soon as possible if you sense that you might have to charge me more than $20 in administrative fees you expect to incur from processing this public-information request from myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, a former resident of the Boston area of Massachusetts who is myself a certified direct descendant of the Rev. William Brewster---the great Puritan religious leader who served as Head Chaplain on the Mayflower and as an adviser to Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford in what is now the U.S. Commonwealth or state of Massachusetts.

My current home address: Village Oaks Apts. (a NW Austin apartment complex reportedly owned by a highly-regarded for-profit corporation that's headquartered in Newton, Mass.), 10926 Jollyville Rd., Bldg. 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

ONLINE OFFICIAL RECORDS FOR THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT REVEAL THAT AS OF 7 P.M. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018, THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT IS STILL PROCESSING THE FOLLOWING OCTOBER 25, 2018, ONLINE PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST FROM MYSELF TO APD THAT'S FOCUSED ON CONDUCT BY APD SERGEANT MICHAEL KING OF THE APD 'CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM' IN AUSTIN, TEXAS



(public-information request ID number provided by the Austin Police Department:)



(My October 25, 2018, online public-information request to APD, in a nutshell, as provided online by APD at the "www.austintexas.gov" website:)

"I seek to obtain from your municipal law-enforcement agency in Austin, Texas, a copy of each and every 'cease and desist' order to a self-identified continuous-sex-crimes victim that was written and sent or forwarded to that individual by APD Sergeant Michael King of APD's Crisis Intervention Team, or that Sergeant King directly cited in writing to a self-identified continuous-sex-crimes victim as being a 'cease and desist' order from a City of Austin or APD official that was currently applicable to that individual; each and every 'no more alleged-continuous-sex-crimes evidence photos are needed from you' written statement from APD Sergeant Michael King; each and every "no additional forensic DNA sexual-assault exams on you as a self-identified continuous sex-crimes victim are needed or are appropriate' written statement from APD Sergeant Michael King; each and every written statement from APD Sergeant Michael King about his not being willing to contact the Austin Police Department Sex Crimes Unit on behalf of a self-identified or cited continuous sexual-assault-crimes victim; each and every statement in which APD Sergeant Michael King indicated or stated in writing to a self-identified continuous-sex-crimes victim that Sergeant Michael King himself represents or writes or speaks on behalf of the APD Sex Crimes Unit; and each and every 'I (APD Sergeant Michael King) won't contact a cited relative of yours on your behalf in regard to your allegations about being victimized by alleged continuous sex crimes' written statement, that in each and every such case that occurred at any time since January 1, 2014, was written and e-mailed or mailed by APD Sergeant Michael King of APD's Crisis Intervention Team to myself, self-identified continuous-sex-crimes victim John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin, or to any other Austin resident who was also stating that he or she was a self-identified victim of alleged continuous sex crimes in Austin. The APD Sergeant Michael King to whom I refer has the cited APD office phone number of (512) 854-3432."

"Status : Processing"

Sunday, November 25, 2018

NEW YORKERS AT THEIR MOST CANDID: IMAGINARY EVERYDAY COMMENTS OVERHEARD ON THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN



---"I wish my labor union would protect my legal right to obtain a 401-K retirement plan through my employer that does NOT involve me with investment in the tobacco or hard-liquor alcohol or marijuana or medical marijuana or tattoo-parlor or gambling or race-car-driving industries. But I don't believe that my labor union is willing to do that for me."

--"I've already told my daughter that I will NOT agree to attend her wedding if she ever gets engaged to a professional race-car driver. I don't want to get a phone call in the middle of the night in which my grief-stricken daughter while sobbing from her end of the phone line tells me her husband has been paralyzed for life from a race-car event he competed in that weekend."

---" I don't know of anyone in New York who doesn't seek to file a lawsuit against Donald Trump. This is probably the biggest contribution he has made to our country. He has reminded all of us that whenever anyone significantly wrongs us, we each have the legal right and moral imperative to file a lawsuit against the perpetrator in a court of law here in New York."

--"The type of feature story or feature series I would like to see in 'The Times' would be focused on how the clergy of the United States are responding to the Global Warming Effect. Is the Global Warming Effect being mentioned frequently in sermons these days? Is the Global Warming Effect being described in sermons as compelling evidence that Armageddon is approaching? If so, are American clergy maintaining that an Armageddon of that type can be averted through responsible conduct by American society and other nations? Are any members of the clergy urging all persons to stop smoking tobacco cigarettes or marijuana cigarettes, as one way to help reverse the Global Warming Effect? Is the response to the Global Warming Effect by members of the American clergy significantly different from that of clergy members in nations such as Canada, Great Britain, 

Australia, Ireland, France, and Germany? Does the dire warning from the religion of ancient Greece about the danger of flying too close to the sun proving to be pertinent for modern religions, with the focus today being on excessive exposure to the sun from being right here on this planet?"

--"I am outraged by Canada's legalization of marijuana! What's happening is that farmers in Canada are switching from growing crops that are actually nutritious and good for human health, to growing weed! Whoever came up with this idea for a perverse switch in Canadian farmers' priorities is someone so diabolical that it's obvious he is deliberately seeking to ruin Canada's integrity as a major producer of agricultural crops!"

---"If I ever do invest in Canadian real estate, I would prefer to put my money in the Canadian province where per-capita consumption of marijuana and other illicit drugs and tobacco is the lowest. I would have to contact the Canadian government in order to find out from officials in Ottawa which Canadian province fits that description. That's the place where I would be most likely to invest financially in Canadian real estate."

--"On the subject of Canada, I wonder why I don't own a Maple Cookbook that highlights each of the dishes I can make that use maple syrup as a leading ingredient. The fact that I've never seen a Maple Syrup Cookbook here in New York proves once again that Canadians could do a much better job at marketing their own country, it seems to me. Canada is the Maple Leaf country, yet they haven't even produced a maple-motif recipes book that I can recall having seen in the local bookstores here in Manhattan. In fact, if you asked me where the best Canadian restaurant is here in New York, I would be completely stumped by that question. It's another example of a nice business opportunity for promoters of Canada that they have apparently failed to take advantage of!"



Friday, November 23, 2018

A QUICK WAY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PERSON YOU JUST MET IS A POSSIBLE CURRENT OR FUTURE MEMBER OF THE 'PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION' OR, AT LEAST, SOMEONE WHO MIGHT HAVE MANY OF THE REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE MEMBERSHIP IN THAT FULLY INDEPENDENT NEW RELIGION

He states or indicates that he does not pray.
He states or indicates that he supports rational goal-setting by human beings as an alternative to prayer.
He states or indicates that he himself practices IMPLICIT deism, as distinct from someone who talks frequently about God, the Allmighty, the Deity, etc., or who talks frequently about his contempt for any and all religions.
He states or indicates that he strongly supports freedom of speech and freedom of religion and freedom of assembly for anyone and everyone, provided that the religion-related or other activities pursued by that person do not involve criminal activities such as deliberate and willful personal-injury-infliction and other forms of violence, attempted homicide, fraudulent and injurious medical services, deliberately fraudulent communications, infliction of continuous medically-injurious noise pollution on another person, hostage-taking of persons, kidnapping of persons, thought-control projects inflicted on individuals against their wishes, or any other noteworthy conduct that is illegal.
He states or indicates that he himself does not have any criminal-conviction record.
He states or indicates that he himself is dependably civil and non-violent and law-abiding.
He states or indicates that he himself on his own initiative is willing to contact a law-enforcement agency and report the incident if he witnesses another human being being apparently victimized by a felony crime.
He states or indicates that he does not subject another human being to pranks, and that he agrees with those who say that pranks are a form of criminal mischief that can be severely injurious to the person being subjected to a prank against his wishes.
He states or indicates that he never consumes any drinking alcohol.
He states or indicates that he believes the best use for drinking alcohol is in cooking, since alcohol as an ingredient can add flavor to dishes and the alcohol itself evaporates during the cooking process.
He states or indicates that he supports an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would authorize any municipality or county to impose restrictions to the sale of drinking alcohol that are more extensive than the restrictions imposed by the state government in that state.
He states or indicates that he never drives a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any illicit drug.
He states or indicates that he does not have ANY tattoo emblazoned anywhere on his own body.
He is consistently facially cleanshaven, and agrees that facial hair on a male person spreads germs and comprises a threat to the medical health of others.
He states or indicates that he either does not own or wear any jewelry or wears only very minimal jewelry on himself.
He states or indicates that he has never consumed any tobacco product on any occasion in his entire life.
He states or indicates that he feels that smoking cigarettes is harmful to the environment and comprises a flagrant fire-safety hazard, in his opinion.
He states or indicates that he has not consumed any quantity of marijuana on any occasion in more than 10 years.
He states or indicates that in his entire life, he has never once consumed any quantity of any illicit drug other than marijuana.
He states or indicates that he himself does not spend more than $10 per year on gambling.
He states or indicates that he himself believes that professional race-car events waste fossil fuels in an unconscionable manner and are environmentally destructive as well as endangering the personal safety of the race-car drivers.

EXPLANATION TO PROPOSED VOLUNTARY PAYMENT OF FEES TO MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY OF OTHER DENOMINATIONS



My hope is that my integrity-minded and honorable non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion" (PPR) will be so conscientious that it will generously offer to pay a fee to each member of the clergy of another religious denomination for whom a paragraph or two from a sermon or book written by that clergyman is used by my own religion in a fully attributed context.

The intent behind this stipend offer to members of the clergy of other denominations would be:

---to highlight my own religion's strong support for freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

---to highlight my own religion's commitment to rewarding excellence, and strong devotion to a fair-minded meritocratic tradition.

---to highlight the crucial point that my own religion is strengthened from making the best possible use, in a context fully compatible with my own religion's distinctive religious and political ideology, of impressive insights and salient factual information that clergy members in other denominations have offered or shared in written form.

---to politely underscore the point that my own religion is only able to use a paragraph or two from each of the sermons written by members of the clergy of other denominations. My own religion is factual-minded and eschews abstract nouns of conventional religion such as "God" or "Allmighty" or "Holy Spirit" or "Holy Ghost" or "hell" and"heaven" as expected afterlife destinations for human beings.

---to underscore the point that my religion seeks to help boost PPR members' brainpower and intellectual vitality.











ONE TECHNIQUE I WANT MY NON-CHRISTIAN 'PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION' TO USE IN ORDER TO HELP MEMBERS STAY OR BECOME AS MENTALLY SHARP AS POSSIBLE: FIGURATIVE 'FLASHCARDS' THAT A MEMBER CAN REVIEW ONLINE THAT EACH FEATURE A PHOTO IMAGEOR ILLUSTRATION OF AN ITEM ALONG WITH AN EVERYDAY WORD FOR THAT ITEM AND A DEFINITION OF THAT NOUN THAT IS USED IN EVERYDAY LIFE



It seems to me that it will make quite a fine daily or weekly religious ritual if each member were encouraged to review the online 'technical nouns' flashcards on a daily or weekly basis. This can help to sharpen the intellect and can help to keep a person thinking clearly and concisely throughout his life, including during his years after age 55.

Among the technical nouns I want to see highlighted online in these mental-acuity "flashcards", along with how one technical noun compares with or contrasts with another technical noun, are:

---"foyer", as distinct from a "lobby" of a building.

---revolving door.

---a variety of synonyms for the word "knob", along with an explanation about the difference in meaning between each of those everyday technical nouns.

---an explanation about the difference in meaning between "porch" and "patio".

---veranda, along with a photograph of one.


---an explanation about the difference, if any, between a "den" and a "study" inside a home.

---cul-de-sac, along with an illustration of how that French term is used in referring to a street in a residential neighborhood, for instance.

----front drive-way, along with a photo illustrating that term.

----key chain, along with a photo of one.


----pavilion.

---rotunda.

---penthouse apartment unit.

---the difference between a "basement" and a "cellar".

---swivel chair.

---turn lane on a street.

---the difference (if any) between an "emergency lane" and a "shoulder" to a highway.


---"efficiency apartment" as compared with a "studio apartment" or a "one-room apartment".

---"escalator" as compared with a "staircase" or an "elevator" inside a building.

---love seat.


One hope of mine is that my through these types of online technical-nouns flashcard educational services, my non-proselytizing Progressive Prohibitionist Religion can help to prevent the onset of Alzheimer's Disease in a member of that religion.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

A MOMENT OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN AN ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO 'THE AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN' DAILY NEWSPAPER: AN ITEM NOTING THAT A SCIENCE MUSEUM IN JOHNSON CITY, TEXAS, IS WORTH A SPECIAL TRIP TO THAT CENTRAL TEXAS TOWN

"Austin American-Statesman", Sunday, October 21, 2018, "NEVER STOP LEARNING: EXPLORE AND DISCOVER MORE ABOUT YOUR ENVIRONMENT THROUGH LOCAL EDUCATIONAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES," by Noah Bradon:

"THE SCIENCE MILL IN JOHNSON CITY
"(SCIENCEMILL.ORG)
"Fifty miles outside Austin is Johnson City, Texas, which is home to The Science Mill. This is a big hit with families as well as individuals interested in studying science in an engaging setting...."