He represents the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and he also works part time as the Emergency Advice Planning Coordinator for the Attorney General's Office. In the emergency planning role, Joe coordinates updates to the office’s internal emergency legal resource guides. Joe serves as a State Agency Liaison to the Emergency Management Division, and he has given numerous presentations on legal issues of emergency response and recovery. In 2007 Joe published an article on emergency preparedness for lawyers in the Washington State Bar News.