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In the event of a disaster or emergency all City employees, contingent upon health and safe passage, must report for instruction at the designated EOC or alternate EOC location. Certain staff have been pre-assigned to perform a specific function in the City of Pleasanton EOC (as a primary or alternate), or at another location, and are expected to report to the designated location as outlined in the Emergency Operations Plan. Staff assigned to perform an emergency function in the EOC or at another location are expected to report for duty. In the rare circumstance when normal communications are out of service and notification may not be possible with the use of the normal methods (phone, radio, digital), employees should report to their normal work site. If the normal work site is not available or accessible, employees are to report to an alternate location identified by the department plan. 9. PUBLIC INFORMATION In order to keep the community safe and informed, and in the interest of maintaining open and transparent media communications, the public information function will make every effort to disseminate timely, consistent and accurate information to the news media and public. In the event the EOC is activated, the Public Information Officer (PIO) will report to the EOC to coordinate with the EOC Director. The lead PIO will also work closely with all other EOC response sections to ensure a consistent message to EOC and emergency response staff as well as the public at large. All incoming media inquiries should be referred to the lead PIO or designee who may designate other PIOs (who may be in the EOC or in the field). All information released must be approved by the EOC Director or designee. If communication with the EOC is unavailable,field PIOs should coordinate the release of scene specific information with the Incident Commander prior to releasing any information to the public or media. Public Information will make every effort to conduct regularly scheduled briefings and distribute regular media releases to inform the media and public about the incident and response. Depending on the scale of the incident, a Joint Information Center(JIC) may be established to help coordinate the release of information. 10. EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION Requests for the dissemination of emergency communications should include specific information that supports the request including targeted geographic information, assessment of risk, and the intended goal of the communication. If a specific form of messaging is requested, that should also be indicated. The PIO in the EOC shall have primary responsibility for formulating any emergency messages. Requests for emergency messages from a Department Operations Center will be