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 Now back in the private sector as Senior Consultant
on Public Affairs and Media Relations, Mike Botula
was formerly the Assistant Director for Public
Affairs for the California Department of Child
Support Services (DCSS), where he was responsible
for directing the
department’s statewide media relations program.
Botula was appointed by Governor Gray Davis to this
position in 2001 after 12 years service with the Los
Angeles County District Attorney’s Office under
District Attorneys Ira Reiner, Gil Garcetti and
Steve Cooley. He was initially News Secretary for
the District Attorney and later assigned to the
District Attorney’s Bureau of Family Support as
Public Outreach Coordinator.
Mike entered his public service career in 1989
following more than 20 years as an award-winning
radio and television news reporter in Los Angeles
for All News KFWB and KMPC radio and KTLA and KTTV
television, among others. He was also West Coast
Bureau Chief for INN-Independent Network News.
During his journalism career Botula received
numerous awards including a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award,
two Golden Mike Awards from the Radio TV News
Association, three Greater Los Angeles Press Club
Awards and the California Associated Press Award.
He
served on both the Los Angeles Local and National
Boards of the American Federation of Television and
Radio Artists (AFTRA) attaining the positions of
National Recording Secretary and First Vice
President of the L.A. Local. He was also a board
member and past president of the Radio & TV News
Association of Southern California.
As News Secretary for the District Attorney’s Office
he served as media liaison during such high profile
cases as the McMartin Preschool Molestation Case,
Charles Keating, Rodney King, the Reginald Denny
beating case, Michael Jackson and the O.J. Simpson
case.
As Public Outreach Coordinator for Los Angeles
County’s Family Support Bureau in late 1994 he
applied his media experience to the challenges of
developing a comprehensive child support public
outreach program for the Department. He has been
instrumental in producing public information
campaigns for child support automation and welfare
reform and the statewide Child Support Reform
Initiative.
In recognition of his service to California’s Child
Support Program, he was presented with the
Special Achievement Award of NCSEA, the National
Child Support Enforcement Association, and the Board
of Directors Award of the California Family Support
Council for his dedication and service to the child
support community.
On retiring from state service he established his
own media relations consultancy-Mike Botula
Communications, serving as Senior Consultant for
Public Affairs for McElroy Communications, a Sacramento public relations and marketing
firm, and as Executive Director for the California
Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE)
Alliance, a non-profit outreach and education
organization serving California's service-disabled
veterans. |
