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Has served more than 1500 families as Coroner.

Believes every case is different and it is important to treat every case individually.

- Has served more than 1500 families as Coroner.
- Believes every case is different and it is important to treat every case individually.

Public Health

Does not see anything that needs to change if he were to be re-elected.

Said, "I consider myself a servant of the people."

- Does not see anything that needs to change if he were to be re-elected.
- Said, "I consider myself a servant of the people."

Public Safety

C. Verlyn "Lucky" Brock

- 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. 