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As of March 23, 2024, Geraldine Melissa Polk did not have a website or any information online.

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Advocated for fair and credible dealings, transparency, accessibility, cooperation and fiscal responsibility in conducting county business, and honesty and integrity.

- Advocated for fair and credible dealings, transparency, accessibility, cooperation and fiscal responsibility in conducting county business, and honesty and integrity.

As of March 23, 2024, Renee Broughton Godwin did not have a website or any information online.

Renee Broughton Godwin

- 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. 