1. (a) All employees of the Department shall receive training on the roles and responsibilities of state agency employees under the Texas Public Information Act (the "Act"). Training shall take place at the time of initial employment with the Department, and thereafter from time to time as determined by the Executive Director.
2. (b) Each division in the Department shall designate a public information liaison for the division and an alternate. In addition to the training received upon initial employment the public information liaisons and alternates shall receive additional specialized training on the requirements of the Public Information Act. Public information liaisons shall be responsible for locating and assembling division documents responsive to public information requests in a timely manner, coordinating public information requests with other divisions including Legal Services and tracking the request in the Department's log used for such purpose. Additional public information liaison training sessions may be required from time to time by the Executive Director.

Source Note:The provisions of this §1.9 adopted to be effective December 5, 2013, 38 TexReg 8649.