Welcome page of Kevin’s website

I’m very sorry to inconvenience you by changing how you must contact me as your Councilmember.  When I was first elected to our City Council in 1998, I had conversations underway already with hundreds of residents using my own personal email address, kevin@mckeown.net.  Not only was this convenient; it seemed more friendly and personal.

After these many years, City legal staff has advised me they’d prefer that all City-specific communications go through the Santa Monica computer system, using my kevin.mckeown@santamonica.gov address.  While every email I’ve ever sent or received regarding City business has already been a public record, archived and made available for public records requests or litigation, moving to santamonica.gov will automate the process.

My email was never on a “private server.”  While I’ve had my own internet domain (mckeown.net) since the mid-90s, my email and website are hosted on computers operated by Pair Networks, the same company I used decades ago when I was a computer consultant setting up websites and email for local non-profits.  Those Pair servers are and always have been fully in the public realm.

I will retain kevin@mckeown.net for personal email correspondence, but from now on please send any email regarding Santa Monica, City business, or my role as your Councilmember using only kevin.mckeown@santamonica.gov.

PLEASE DON’T SEND PERSONAL EMAIL ABOUT THINGS OTHER THAN THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA TO THAT CITY ADDRESS!

I cannot protect your personal privacy if you do so, because any mail sent to the City address is a public record, and remains on the City servers, out of my control.  Whether your email to me at kevin.mckeown@santamonica.gov is disclosed to anyone who asks is then up to the City’s legal team, not up to me.

Thanks for understanding,

Use kevin.mckeown@santamonica.gov:

City of Santa Monica (governmental)

City questions, complaints, or praise

My representation of you, including as

Santa Monica City Councilmember

Westside Cities Council of Governments

S.M. Bay Restoration Commission
Clean Power Alliance of Southern
  California Board of Directors

Use kevin@mckeown.net:

Personal messages

Campaigning, for me or anyone else

Partisan political email, such as

Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights

Santa Monica Democratic Club

Feel the Bern Democratic Club

California Democratic Party

CADEM Irish-American Caucus