Thomasville Times-Enterprise, New coroner, lawmen discuss protocol

As of July 25, 2024, Donald D. Shiver did not have a website or any information online.

Donald worked as a local funeral home owner.

Donald D. Shiver is the current coroner for Thomas County. He was elected in 2016.

Public Health

Said, “We have to let them complete their job at the crime scene before we can complete ours" in regards to interactions between the police and the coroners' office.

- Said, “We have to let them complete their job at the crime scene before we can complete ours" in regards to interactions between the police and the coroners' office.

Public Safety

Donald D. Shiver

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 

The chief medical examiner for the county