Chattooga 1189, Hammond Announces Canidacy for Coroner

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Heath Hammond (Chattooga County Coroner, Georgia, candidate 2024)

As of April 22, 2024, Heath Hammond did not have a website or any information online.

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Heath Hammond

Fourth Republican Seeking Coroner's Position

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As of April 22, 2024, Carrie Blackwell did not have a website or any information online.

Carrie Blackwell

Wants to implement monthly educational campaigns to reduce preventable deaths such as drug abuse, impaired driving, and suicide.

Prioritizes organizing a trained chaplain program within the Coroner's Office designed to assist families.

- Wants to implement monthly educational campaigns to reduce preventable deaths such as drug abuse, impaired driving, and suicide.
- Prioritizes organizing a trained chaplain program within the Coroner's Office designed to assist families.

As of April 22, 2024, Jeremy McElhaney did not have a website or any information online.

Jeremy McElhaney

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Ballotpedia, Savanna McGill

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- 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. 