Clarke Coroner, Democratic Primary
The chief medical examiner for the county
Full office description
- 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.
How this impacts you
Public Safety — The Coroner is responsible for determining how local people died under suspicious circumstances, which is essential to finding threats to the public health and safety.
Election results
WINNER
Michael Eberhart
79.8%
6,554 votes
William C Gaulden Jr
20.2%
1,659 votes