Cherokee County Coroner, Coroner's Office

Has experience in emergency department/trauma nursing, supervision, management, education, and medical legal death investigations (MLDI).

- Has experience in emergency department/trauma nursing, supervision, management, education, and medical legal death investigations (MLDI).

Public Health

Works with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and Fire Department in a joint presentation, “Ghost Outs,” to Cherokee County High School students each year on the dangers of texting, drinking, and driving.

- Works with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and Fire Department in a joint presentation, “Ghost Outs,” to Cherokee County High School students each year on the dangers of texting, drinking, and driving.

Public Safety

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Sally Sims

- 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. 