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Times Recorder, Ohio election 2020: Seth Vensil will serve as Muskingum County coroner

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Wants to establish more partnerships with community agencies to help address preventable deaths.

Plans to provide education and programs for preventable deaths, such as infant drowning and mental health & substance use.

- Wants to establish more partnerships with community agencies to help address preventable deaths.
- Plans to provide education and programs for preventable deaths, such as infant drowning and mental health & substance use.

Public Safety

Wants more office accessibility and transparency.

- Wants more office accessibility and transparency.

Public Health

Seth Vensil

- 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. 