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The City Communications Office shares information about city services and programs. The staff works with city departments and the City Council to tell the city’s story. We inform residents and visitors using a wide variety of communications channels:

This city website at KCMO.gov
Follow us on social media, including X/Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Read the latest news releases. Sign up for news releases, newsletters and other emailed information.
Watch our city government channel, KCCG-TV2 (Fountain City TV), with coverage of City Council meetings, special events and original programming. Kansas City residents with cable access may watch KCCG or anyone may watch online.
We respond to requests for city documents filed through the Sunshine Law (also known as the Freedom of Information Act, or FIOA).
Sign up for AlertKC to receive text messages to warn you of severe weather, public safety issues, broken water mains or closed streets in your neighborhood. We coordinate with our Emergency Operations Center and several departments to provide this service.

We welcome feedback about our communications. Please send comments and suggestions to:

City Communications Office
414 E. 12th St., Suite 2101
Kansas City, MO 64106
Email: communications@kcmo.org

News Media Contacts

This list is intended to guide working members of the news media who need information and interviews related to City departments.

If you are a resident with a concern, please submit a report through the myKCMO app or call 311 for assistance.

For media requests, please reach out to media@kcmo.org.

Sherae Honeycutt
Press Secretary & City Spokeswoman
Office: (816) 513-3424
Mobile: (816) 946-3611

Members of the media can email media@kcmo.org to reach the media relations staff on duty each day.

Other communications professionals and public information officers (PIO) are available as key contacts for these specific offices and departments:

Aviation Department
Joe McBride
Office: (816) 243-3164
Mobile: (816) 719-0588

City Auditor
Douglas Jones
Office: 816-513-3303

City Clerk’s Office
Marilyn Sanders
Office: (816) 513-6401

City Planning and Development
media@kcmo.org
(Development Plans, CPC and BZA Cases, Building and Zoning Violations, Historic Preservation, Area Plans, Census Data)

Fire Department
Mike Hopkins

Health Department
April Leonard

Housing and Community Development Department
Monica Castro
Mobile: (816) 945-0863
(Affordable housing, homelessness, Land Bank)

Municipal Court
Benita Jones
Office: (816) 513-6711
Mobile: (816) 522-0162
(Court case information, courtroom camera requests, court stats, specialty courts)

Neighborhoods Department
Monica Castro
Mobile: (816) 945-0863
(Code enforcement, tow lot, regulated industries, dangerous buildings, Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund)

Parks and Recreation Department
Lanè Johnson
Mobile: (816) 209-5325
(Parks, community centers, boulevards and fountains)

Police Department
Media Unit: (816) 234-5170

Public Works Department
Sherae Honeycutt
(Bike lanes, streets, sidewalks, trash and recycling, snow removal, leaf and brush, street lights and signs, traffic signals, parking)

KC Water
Jackson Overstreet
Mobile: (816) 799-3276
(Water, wastewater, stormwater, household hazardous waste, Smart Sewer, street sweeping)

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