A SIGN OF INTEGRITY: STATE SENATOR DAWN BUCKINGHAM OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE CONCLUDES A REPLY NOTE TO ME SENT BY HER OFFICE THIS WEEK WITH THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE:

***PLEASE NOTE: No campaign or political business is conducted through my State office. All such inquires may be directed to dawn@dawnbuckingham.com or (512) 766-7324.**

STATE LAWMAKERS WITH CENTRAL TEXAS CONSTITUENTS RECEIVE REQUEST FOR SPONSORSHIP OF A NEW BILL EXPANDING SCOPE OF DRUG-TESTING ON CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN EMPLOYEES AND CITY OF AUSTIN OFFICIALS

On Monday, March 19, 2018 11:14 PM, John McMillan wrote:

March 19, 2018

Dear Distinguished State of Texas Legislators from the greater Austin area,

My duly-elected representative in the Texas House, State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, earlier today indicated (below) to me in writing that she is not willing to sponsor any proposed legislation in the Texas House that will cite additional specified circumstances in which the State of Texas will either require or authorize the City Government of Austin to conduct drug testing on a City of Austin employee or on a City of Austin official---such as the Mayor, City Manager, a City Council Member, or a City of Austin department head.

The proposed new legislation will also, of course, be applicable to other municipal governments in Texas.

Are any of you state lawmakers from the greater Austin area willing to consider sponsoring new legislation of the type that I am myself recommending (see below) in the next session of the Texas Legislature?

If so, please let me know as soon as possible, as I do not currently have any local sponsor for proposed new legislation of the type I am advocating for our state.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder and only current approved member of the lawfully non-Christian and public-safety-minded as well as crime-deterrence-minded "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address: 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
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On Monday, March 19, 2018 4:35 PM, Amanda Foster wrote:

Dear Mr. McMillan,

Thank you for your email. Rep. Hinojosa is not planning to recommend any revisions you mentioned regarding drug testing municipal employees or municipal-government officials for next session.

Amanda Foster, LMSW |Legislative Director
State Representative Gina Hinojosa
(O) 512-463-0668
amanda.foster@house.texas.gov

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From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 

Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM

To: Gina Hinojosa; Amanda Foster; Kirk Watson; Keysha Walcott; Gerald Daugherty; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla; Public Information; Texas Rangers Division of DPS; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015); gerald.daugherty@traviscountytx.gov; Texas Municipal League (2016); Texas Municipal League General Counsel Bennett Sandlin; Texas City Attorneys Assn. General Counsel Scott Houston; Texas City Attorneys Assoc. Pres. (2016); APD Officer James Turner; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; FBI Dallas Bureau; Austin Mayor Steve Adler; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan; statesman; Christian Hawley; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel; Unknown National; White House Fellows Program 2017; Austin Chronicle Editors; Texas Observer Editors; Texas Monthly Editors (2017); Scott Goldstein; Dallas City Attorney's Office; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor; Houston Police Dept (2015); Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016); rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; District 8; district9@austintexas.gov; Austin City Auditor QA Coordinator (2016); Sherri Fleming; Austinstone Info; Hpbc Info; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016); Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center; Letters To the Editor; Texas Tribune Editor In Chief Evan Smith; KLRU; UT-Austin Law School Dean Ward Farnsworth; smccown@law.utexas.edu; hway@law.utexas.edu; University of Oklahoma President; The Oklahoman Editor 2017; The Oklahoman ME Shannon (2017); DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President; zpatton@governing.com; edaigneau@governing.com; CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon); CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters; WallStJournalNewstips; kathryn.walker@normanok.gov; The University of Texas at Austin; Dustin Burrows; Carlos Uresti; Charles Schwertner; Traviscountydemocrats Info; Travis County Republican Party (2016); Jon Heining; Republican Party of Texas; Texas Christian Univeristy; david_garland@baylor.edu; Rice Univ. Polit. Sci. Prof. Brace; KXAN TV News Investigations; Texas City Management Pres-elect 2017; Texas City Management Pres. 2017; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov; Texas Department of Health and Human Services Ombudsman; Usnews Webmaster; CommentaryMagazineEditors; BBC News Story Ideas (2017); Cedar Park (TX) City Manager Brenda Eivens (2014); Leander Police Chief Minton; Attorney General of Utah; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims; Texasadvocacyproject Info; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Dailytexanonline News; Steven Rich; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ); Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016; Trinity University (San Antonio) Assoc. Prof. Political Science John Hermann; CommunityAnti-DrugCoalitionsofAmericaEditor; Imla Info; Temple (TX) Police Chief Floyd Mitchell (2016); Pflugerville (TX) Police Chief Charles Hooker (2016); Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci

Subject: 3-10-18 idea for TX Leg: expand drug testing of municipal employees

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.

During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:
https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. Her E-mail address: spaulson@omag.org .

According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.

---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".

---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...

REPUBLICAN STATE REP. DREW SPRINGER OF MUENSTER---A NORTH TEXAS CITY SITUATED BETWEEN DALLAS AND WICHITA FALLS---ON MARCH 19, 2018, ASSERTS IN WRITING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY OF HIS LEGISLATIVE STAFF MEMBERS HAVE ANY RECORD OF ANY WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS OR PHONE MESSAGES THAT REFER TO MYSELF, JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF NORTHWEST AUSTIN

On Monday, March 19, 2018 3:49 PM, Representative Drew Springer wrote:

Dear Mr. McMillan:

I am writing in response to your requests for records under the Public Information Act, about obtaining a copy of any and all email correspondence, letters, legal notes or phone messages generated or received by Rep. Springer or his office in regards to yourself. After conducting a thorough search of the records of this office, we have determined that we have no records that are responsive to your request.

Respectfully Submitted/jgm
__________________________________

Jonathan Mathers
Chief of Staff for Rep. Drew Springer (HD68)
Associate Professor of Government at ACC
P: 512-463-0526
E: Jonathan.Mathers@house.texas.gov
E: Jmathers@austincc.edu

DEMOCRATIC PARTY-AFFILIATED STATE REPRESENTATIVE GINA HINOJOSA OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, ON MARCH 19, 2018, INDICATES IN WRITING TO A HOUSE DISTRICT 49 SINGLE ADULT MALE CONSTITUENT OF HERS (MYSELF) THAT REP. HINOJOSA WILL NOT SUPPORT INCREASED STATE-MANDATED DRUG TESTING ON CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN EMPLOYEES OR ON CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN OFFICIALS---SUCH AS THE MAYOR, CITY MANAGER, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND CITY OF AUSTIN DEPARTMENT HEADS

On Monday, March 19, 2018 4:35 PM, Amanda Foster wrote:

Dear Mr. McMillan,

Thank you for your email. Rep. Hinojosa is not planning to recommend any revisions you mentioned regarding drug testing municipal employees or municipal-government officials for next session.

Amanda Foster, LMSW |Legislative Director
State Representative Gina Hinojosa
(O) 512-463-0668

amanda.foster@house.texas.gov
________

From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 

Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM

To: Gina Hinojosa; Amanda Foster; Kirk Watson; Keysha Walcott; Gerald Daugherty; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla; Public Information; Texas Rangers Division of DPS; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015); gerald.daugherty@traviscountytx.gov; Texas Municipal League (2016); Texas Municipal League General Counsel Bennett Sandlin; Texas City Attorneys Assn. General Counsel Scott Houston; Texas City Attorneys Assoc. Pres. (2016); APD Officer James Turner; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; FBI Dallas Bureau; Austin Mayor Steve Adler; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan; statesman; Christian Hawley; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel; Unknown National; White House Fellows Program 2017; Austin Chronicle Editors; Texas Observer Editors; Texas Monthly Editors (2017); Scott Goldstein; Dallas City Attorney's Office; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor; Houston Police Dept (2015); Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016); rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; District 8; district9@austintexas.gov; Austin City Auditor QA Coordinator (2016); Sherri Fleming; Austinstone Info; Hpbc Info; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016); Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center; Letters To the Editor; Texas Tribune Editor In Chief Evan Smith; KLRU; UT-Austin Law School Dean Ward Farnsworth; smccown@law.utexas.edu; hway@law.utexas.edu; University of Oklahoma President; The Oklahoman Editor 2017; The Oklahoman ME Shannon (2017); DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President; zpatton@governing.com; edaigneau@governing.com; CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon); CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters; WallStJournalNewstips; kathryn.walker@normanok.gov; The University of Texas at Austin; Dustin Burrows; Carlos Uresti; Charles Schwertner; Traviscountydemocrats Info; Travis County Republican Party (2016); Jon Heining; Republican Party of Texas; Texas Christian Univeristy; david_garland@baylor.edu; Rice Univ. Polit. Sci. Prof. Brace; KXAN TV News Investigations; Texas City Management Pres-elect 2017; Texas City Management Pres. 2017; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov; Texas Department of Health and Human Services Ombudsman; Usnews Webmaster; CommentaryMagazineEditors; BBC News Story Ideas (2017); Cedar Park (TX) City Manager Brenda Eivens (2014); Leander Police Chief Minton; Attorney General of Utah; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims; Texasadvocacyproject Info; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Dailytexanonline News; Steven Rich; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ); Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016; Trinity University (San Antonio) Assoc. Prof. Political Science John Hermann; CommunityAnti-DrugCoalitionsofAmericaEditor; Imla Info; Temple (TX) Police Chief Floyd Mitchell (2016); Pflugerville (TX) Police Chief Charles Hooker (2016); Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci

Subject: 3-10-18 idea for TX Leg: expand drug testing of municipal employees

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.

During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:
https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. 

Her E-mail address: spaulson@omag.org .

According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.

---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".

---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...

CITY GOVERNMENT OF SAN ANTONIO REP MORAIMA MONTENEGRO REQUESTS IN WRITING ON MARCH 12, 2018, THAT I REFRAIN FROM SENDING ANY ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE OF MINE TO HER MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS

On Monday, March 12, 2018 11:06 AM, Open Records wrote:

Mr. McMillan,

Please remove the City of San Antonio from the mailing list as your request is based out of Austin and the City of San Antonio would not have any responsive documents.

Thank you,
Moraima Montenegro
Senior Public Information Officer, Government and Public Affairs Department
115 Plaza de Armas, Suite 110, San Antonio, Texas 78205E: moraima.montenegro@sanantonio.gov | P: (210) 207-0297

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Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 11:10 AM

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Fw: 3-10-18 idea for TX Leg: expand drug testing of municipal employees

A respectful FYI to each of you on the following March 10-dated public-policy letter of mine to my duly-elected state lawmaker in the Texas House, State Rep. Gina Hinojosa of Austin, Texas, in which I cited a state law in Oklahoma.

It is my hope that the cited Oklahoma state law might possibly offer ideas for state lawmakers here in Austin on how the Texas Legislature could expand the number and scope of circumstances in Texas in which a municipal-government employee or a municipal-government official, such as a City Manager or a City Council member or department head, could be legally required by a municipal government in Texas to undergo drug testing.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, anti-"medical-marijuana"-minded, crime-prevention-minded, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".

My home address: 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.

John Kevin McMillan

On Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.

During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:

https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. Her E-mail address: spaulson@omag.org.


According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.
---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".
---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...

John Kevin McMillan

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IN WHICH WAYS CAN A DRUG-ADDICTED EMPLOYEE OF A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT --- SUCH AS THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN IN THIS STATE-CAPITAL CITY FOR TEXAS --- UNDERMINE THE MORAL INTEGRITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY OF A CITY?

----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin in Austin, Texas, is addicted to an illicit drug such as marijuana or cocaine or heroin or methamphetamines, this means by definition that that municipal government has an unacknowledged ongoing relationship through that employee with an illicit-drug dealer who has ties to organized crime.

----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict and other persons learn about his or her nefarious activity, the City of Austin's unofficial or official endorsement of the "Keep Austin Weird" slogan is thereby equated in a tragically perverse manner with "Keep Austin High (On Drugs)" --- a revised slogan thereby endorsing illegal activities that can be very harmful to the medical health and public safety and level of obedience of the law of City of Austin employees and this entire state-capital city along the Colorado River.

----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin in this state capital city for Texas is addicted to any illicit drug, that individual might attempt to share the name and phone number or e-mail address of his or her own drug dealer with a coworker or work supervisor in a context in which the former individual states, "I've been impressed by the quality of the drugs I'm getting from him, and his prices are very reasonable," or words to that effect. By then "recruiting" additional customers for his or her own drug dealer from within the City of Austin workforce, the cited City of Austin-employed drug addict may then be committing a crime in the process that further damages the moral integrity of the City of Austin. This additional damage to the moral integrity of the City of Austin could occur if the "recruited" City of Austin employee or official fails to report that crime evidence to the Austin Police Department or Federal Bureau of Investigation, or, alternatively, if the "recruited" City of Austin employee or official actually agrees to himself become a paying client of the cited illicit drug dealer.

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, he or she may bring a baggie containing a "sample" of an illicit drug he had purchased to show to and "impress" a City Government of Austin coworker or work supervisor at their municipal-government workplace. Otherwise, the former individual may keep a "sample" of an illicit drug he owns in the glove compartment or trunk of his parked car that was parked in a City of Austin-approved parking garage or City of Austin employee parking lot. He may then ask a coworker or work supervisor to accompany him to his car during his lunch break, so that "I can show you the quality of the item I'm getting from my drug dealer," as that City of Austin employee might put it. This conduct would then tarnish the moral integrity of either the City of Austin workplace or the City of Austin parking lot facility, and could put both of the City of Austin employees or officials at risk of getting arrested on the spot---whether by a police officer or by an FBI agent or by a Texas Ranger employed by the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that his "leisuretime pursuit of illicit drugs" will at some point during his own tenure with the City of Austin play a role in his reporting for work duties or attending or directly participating in an Austin City Council meeting, for instance, at a time when he himself is under the influence of one or more illicit drugs.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, he or she may decline to accept health insurance coverage through the City of Austin, "since I'm a bit paranoid about the possibility that the City-affiliated health insurance company will figure out that I'm a drug addict and then share that information with the Austin Police Department or my work supervisor. That would result in my getting fired from my job."

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, this increases his or her risk of getting fired because of difficulty getting to work on time and work performance-related problems. That unemployment, in turn, increases the risk that the drug addict fired from his job by the City of Austin will then attempt to retaliate by consuming one or more illicit drugs and then revisiting his former workplace in a rage-filled and possibly violent manner.

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that at some point during his career he will report for work while experiencing some form of "illicit-drug addict's hangover". His irritability and inability to concentrate well while on the job during those "hangover" periods are very likely to then significantly disappoint and irk and offend and even alienate his or her work supervisor, his or her coworkers and colleagues with other offices of the City of Austin and other government agencies, and, just as importantly, any members of the general public whom he or she communicates with while on duty and experiencing an "illicit-drug addict's hangover".

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that he will receive a phone call from an on-duty City of Austin official or an on-duty City of Austin coworker during his or her off-duty hours at a time when he himself is "high on drugs". If the drug-addict employee is then expected to respond to a factual question during that telephone conversation, his or her consumption of an illicit drug during his or her off-duty hours would undermine his ability to provide a factually accurate and helpful answer to a question posed to him by an on-duty City of Austin official or coworker. 
Otherwise, if the off-duty City of Austin-employed drug addict is contacted at his home by a City of Austin work supervisor and asked to pursue overtime work for the City "due to an emergency," he poses a major legal liability for the City of Austin when he then agrees to pursue those "emergency" duties for the City without disclosing to his or her work supervisor that he is, in fact, under the influence of one or more illicit drugs.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, this significantly increases the risk that he or she may allegedly attempt to commit a violent crime, such as attempted mass murder or homicide, at some point during his tenure with the City Government of Austin. It is very likely that a disproportionately high share of all mass murders and homicides and attempted homicides and sexual assaults and other personal-injury crimes in the 21st Century United States were allegedly committed by persons--some of them former or current government employees-- who are either current illicit drug addicts or "recovering illicit-drug addicts who have had relapses".

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that numerous other Austin residents know about his or her drug addiction. And that, in turn, plays a role in many persons developing the impression that "the City Government of Austin is 'very soft' on drugs", or permissive toward illicit drug activities.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin (TX) is addicted to at least one illicit drug and is a client of a drug dealer, that illicit relationship could result in that City of Austin employee or official attempting in a sly manner to pressure the Austin Police Department into not pressing criminal charges against the individual who sells illicit drugs to himself. The cited City of Austin employee or official could do that by contacting the Austin Police Department and objecting to alleged "persecution" of the cited "friend" or "associate" of that City of Austin employee or official. Otherwise, the cited illicit-drug-addict employee or official of the City of Austin might through associates of his with local government object in general terms to "excessive criminal prosecution" of any and all individuals who are employed in selling marijuana, for instance, since "there is a trend toward legalization of marijuana, which is, in my opinion, a 'victimless crime'," as that drug-addict employee or official of the City of Austin might state. "And after all, the term 'medical marijuana' proves that marijuana can be good for the health, as most reasonable Austinites will surely agree."

---IF ANY employee or official of the City of Austin is a drug addict, he might object to City Council requiring enrollment in a drug-treatment program by City of Austin employees or officials who test positive on a drug test. "The results of that drug test may have been a false positive," as that drug-addicted City of Austin employee or City of Austin official might strenuously object in an e-mail message to a City of Austin official. "And furthermore, I object to this type of flagrant violation of the privacy rights and civil liberties of myself as a hard-working person employed by the City of Austin. I find it very degrading to be asked to submit to a drug test, when my own integrity, as you know, is beyond reproach."

STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA ACCEPTS URGENT REQUEST FOR TEXAS LEGISLATURE-MANDATED EXPANDED DRUG TESTING ON CITY OF AUSTIN EMPLOYEES AND CITY OF AUSTIN OFFICIALS (ALONG WITH OTHER MUNICIPAL-GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND MUNICIPAL-GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT TEXAS)

On Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM, John McMillan wrote:

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.

During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:

https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. Her E-mail address: spaulson@omag.org.

According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.
---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".
---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
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