about CAPIO
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The California Association of Public Information Officials is a membership organization serving professionals throughout the public sector who engage communities through honest and transparent communication. CAPIO provides California-focused education and networking that helps our members and their agencies develop and advance, because we believe that good government requires good communicators.
But CAPIO is NOT just for city public information officials (PIOs). In addition to a core group of city communications professionals, CAPIO counts among its members the staff of school districts, counties, water and air pollution control districts, parks and open space districts, private PR firms, municipal television channels, police and fire departments, and more - professionals who handle public information and communications duties for these agencies and organizations. As a matter of fact, CAPIO's special district membership is growing daily.
CAPIO is a proud affiliate of the League of California Cities.
By-laws
CAPIO's by-laws were reviewed and amended by a majority vote of the membership in March 2001, to ensure their accurate reflection of CAPIO's current administrative operations, professional standards and equitable representation of its diverse membership. A revision to the first paragraph of the Membership section (IIIA), to correct the omission of "public agency" representatives in the list of qualifications for membership eligibility, was approved by action of the Board of Directors on March 13, 2002, to bring that paragraph into alignment with Section IIIB(1).