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Believes in enhancing safety and reducing crime by sharing resources between agencies.

Believes in uniting law enforcement and protecting crime lab from politics.

Wants to protect the coroner's office from politics.

Believes in strong collaboration between police, law enforcement, county commissioners, and the public to enhance community safety.

Believes in strong collaboration between law enforcement, county commissioners, and the public to enhance community safety.

As coroner, improved facilities, technology, and reputation of the coroner’s office, and increased the number and responsibilities of women serving as physicians and scientists in its crime lab.

Plans to continue educating children on the dangers of drugs and bullying.

Plans to continue efforts to improve the Coroner’s Office.

Promises to build on her efforts to improve the Coroner’s Office.

Supports the construction of a new crime lab facility to better serve the region.

Believes in adding new crime lab facilities as needed to serve the region.

- Believes in enhancing safety and reducing crime by sharing resources between agencies.
- Wants to protect the coroner's office from politics.
- Believes in strong collaboration between law enforcement, county commissioners, and the public to enhance community safety.
- As coroner, improved facilities, technology, and reputation of the coroner’s office, and increased the number and responsibilities of women serving as physicians and scientists in its crime lab.
- Plans to continue educating children on the dangers of drugs and bullying.
- Promises to build on her efforts to improve the Coroner’s Office.
- Believes in adding new crime lab facilities as needed to serve the region.

Public Safety

Believes poverty, neglect, and abuse harm community integrity and contribute to family destruction.

Supports drug-abuse and child-abuse prevention initiatives.

- Believes poverty, neglect, and abuse harm community integrity and contribute to family destruction.
- Supports drug-abuse and child-abuse prevention initiatives.

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Lakshmi Kode Sammarco

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for conducting an unbiased investigation on the cause, manner, and circumstance of death.  
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, for photographing and documenting the place of death, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- They are also responsible for collecting evidence at the location of death. This includes physical evidence and interviews from witnesses. 
- Coroners are responsible for removing the body from the place of death, and informing their family of their death in a timely manner. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 