Eric Lamoureux
Deputy Director, Office of Public Affairs
State of California
Department of General Services
Eric Lamoureux was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in April 2012 to serve as the Deputy Director for the Department of General Services’ Office of Public Affairs. Mr. Lamoureux had served as the Acting Deputy Director since July 2010 and was hired by DGS in September 2007 as Manager of Media Relations. Mr. Lamoureux manages the Office of Public Affairs and oversees all internal and external communications issues for the department. As the department’s primary spokesperson, Mr. Lamoureux represents DGS before the news media and constituent groups, and as a member of the DGS Executive Staff, he provides communications counsel to the Director and Chief Deputy Director.
For 19 years, Mr. Lamoureux has served the State of California in multiple communications assignments. From November 1999 through September 2007, Eric worked for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, where he served as Chief of the department’s Office of Public Information. At OES, he was responsible for managing the State’s Emergency Public Information (EPI) system, directing the activities of the State’s Joint Information Center, and was California’s lead emergency services spokesperson. Mr. Lamoureuxmanaged the State’s communications efforts following the 2005 storms in Southern California, which included the devastating La Conchita and Laguna Beach landslides. In 2003 he led the public information operation during the response to and recovery from the 2003 Southern California Fire Siege. Mr. Lamoureux coordinated State EPI efforts following 9/11 and managed the State’s Y2K Joint Information Center. Mr. Lamoureux also participated in public information operations for numerous state emergencies and disasters including the 2003 San Simeon Earthquake, 2001 Wildland Fires, the 2000 Napa Earthquake, and the 1997 California Floods.
Mr. Lamoureux began his career in 1993 with the California Integrated Waste Management Board where he handled media relations activities, managed three successful statewide environmental education campaigns, and edited the agency’s award-winning “Waste Watcher” newsletter. In 1999 he was the California Environmental Protection Agency’s lead spokesperson on-scene for the Westley Tire Fire in StanislausCounty.
Mr. Lamoureux studied Government-Journalism at California State University, Sacramento and Journalism at American River College in Sacramento. He and his wife Aimee live in Placerville, California with their two children.