Services Provided

Some of the Specific duties and responsibilities are as follows:

• Coordinates the investigation and determines the circumstances, manner, and cause of all violent, sudden, unattended, or unusual deaths
• Selects the deputy coroners and other personnel as needed
• Supervises and instructs employees
• Orders and sees that autopsies are attended by either the Law Enforcement Agency or personnel of her office or both
• Prepares annual budget requests for office
• Notifies next of kin
• Completes death certificates and cremation certificates
• Orders and conducts inquest
• Conducts meetings and conferences with Law Enforcement Agencies, attorneys, physicians, hospital personnel, funeral directors, news media, ambulance attendants, and the public
• Prepares reports and press releases. Makes sure media does not release names and addresses until next-of-kin are notified
• Gives presentations at schools, seminars, service clubs, nursing homes, and hospital staffs
• Requests organ donations from next-of-kin and sees that those wishes are carried out
• Procurement of blood and urine samples for the purpose of toxicology tests