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Identification & Coroner

1000 - Evidence

1000.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE This policy serves to establish rules and guidelines pertaining to any e...

1001 - Identification

1001.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE Establishing a decedent's identification is a core duty of the Coroner e...

1002 - Property

1002.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE California Government Code 27491.3 authorizes the Sheriff-Coroner, Coron...

1003 - NEXT-OF KIN

1003.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE Notifying a decedent's legal next-of-kin of the death is a core duty of ...

1004 - Field Responses

1004.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE California Government Code 27491 specifies all deaths requiring an inqui...

1005 - Unidentified Persons

1005.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE This policy details the legal mandates and additional requirements of th...

1006 - Reportable Deaths

1006.1 POLICY California Government code 27491 establishes the type(s) of deaths requiring an inq...

1008 - Livescan

1008.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE As stated in Policy 1101 - Identification, the preferred method of finge...

1009 - Record Information Management Systems/RIMS

1009.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE Documentation and tracking of accurate and complete information is vital...

1010 - Suicide Notes

1010.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE Pursuant to Government Code 27464, suicide notes are commonly collected ...

1012 - Outside Agency Death Notifications

1012.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE As a professional courtesy, the Coroner Division will occasionally assis...

1013 - Assist Outside Agency

1013.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE Occasionally, the Coroner Division receives a request from an outside ag...

1014 - Autopsy Attendance

1014.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE The Coroner Division regularly receives requests from outside parties se...

1015 - Private Autopsy

1015.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE Pursuant to Government Code 27520, the Coroner Division Facility shall c...

1016 - Religious Objection to Autopsy

1016.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE California Government Code section 27491.43 mandates that a Coroner shal...

1017 - Organ/Tissue Donations

1017.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE The Coroner's Office supports the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (Health an...

1018 - Transportation, Body Removal, and Recovery of Parts

1018.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE As a component of the medicolegal death investigation, the Deputy Corone...

1019 - Carcinoma, Reporting of

1019.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE California Health and Safety Code 10252 mandates the Coroner to report t...

1020 - Investigative Reports

1020.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE As a component of the death investigation, the Deputy Coroner shall prep...