Wisconsin Governor Uses Alias Email for Security

Practice Common Among State Officials, Subject to Open Records Law

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has been using an alias email account under the name of Hall of Fame baseball player Warren Spahn as a security measure.
The use of alias email addresses is common among state officials, including the governor, first lady, and lieutenant governor, for at least the last decade.
All email correspondence from these alias accounts are subject to, searched, and provided as required under Wisconsin’s Open Records law.
Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, expressed concern about the use of 'phantom email addresses'.
The governor's office rejected a request for all communications to and from the alias email from 2018 to September 2023 as being too broad, with over 17,000 emails found.