Staff Directory: Renee Godwin

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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.

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

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- 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. 