Intervention Evaluation Committee urges members to route media requests, approves 2026 meeting schedule and moves to closed session

At a virtual meeting of the Intervention Evaluation Committee (IEC) of the Respiratory Care Board of California, staff advised IEC members to notify board staff and legal counsel about media contacts and to consider services that remove personal contact information from public websites; the committee then approved a proposed 2026 IEC meeting schedule by roll call and recessed into closed session to discuss intervention program applicants.

Board staff told members that appointment to an IEC makes their names publicly discoverable and recommended steps to reduce exposure after a committee member reported unsolicited media contact. “Your names are public knowledge that you reside on an IEC because you are board appointed,” staff said. Staff also said they had met with the Department of Investigations and the attorney general’s office and relayed recommendations including using paid services to scrub…