Terrell Norman files to run for Columbia County coroner

As of March 19, 2024, Terry Norman’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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The candidate's website says, "Collaborate with law enforcement, health care providers, & stakeholders to provide compassionate and supportive assistance to families in their time of need."

Wants to collaborate with law enforcement, health care providers, and stakeholders to ensure that all the assistance and support they need is given.

Intends to modernize the office and decrease investigation durations through working with other local coroners and introducing more technology into the process.

Said, "What Georgia really needs is to put in place the incentives for forensic doctors and medical assistants to want to stay in the state rather than move on after college."

- Wants to collaborate with law enforcement, health care providers, and stakeholders to ensure that all the assistance and support they need is given.
- Intends to modernize the office and decrease investigation durations through working with other local coroners and introducing more technology into the process.
- Said, "What Georgia really needs is to put in place the incentives for forensic doctors and medical assistants to want to stay in the state rather than move on after college."

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Terry Norman

- 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. 