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Committee approves language to set standards for city public information officers, forwards resolution to full board

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee · April 19, 2007
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Summary

Supervisors approved an amended resolution setting conduct expectations for city public information officers — including truthfulness, prompt correction of misinformation and an explicit duty to retract false statements by other employees — and forwarded it to the full Board of Supervisors.

A Rules Committee member introduced a resolution aimed at clarifying standards of conduct for the city's public information officers (PIOs), citing national codes of ethics from professional communicators' groups as a model.

The sponsor (Supervisor identified in the…

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