2024 Georgia General Elections

2024 Georgia General Election Runoff

Henry Herald, Primary Election Voter Guide: Henry County Coroner

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News Daily, Cleveland sworn in as Henry coroner

Donald graduated from Henry County High School in 1985 and holds a Funeral Service Degree from Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service in 1989 and a Bachelor's Degree in criminal justice administration and arson investigation in 2014. 

Donald worked as a funeral director and embalmer for 19 years. 

Donald W Cleveland is the Coroner for Henry County. He has been in this position since 2010.

Believes prescription and illicit drug use is a top issue nationwide and in Henry County, and supports educating the public on the ramifications of drug use through lectures at local high schools on the effects of drug-use and holding mock scenarios of drunk-driving deaths.

- Believes prescription and illicit drug use is a top issue nationwide and in Henry County, and supports educating the public on the ramifications of drug use through lectures at local high schools on the effects of drug-use and holding mock scenarios of drunk-driving deaths.

Public Health

Said infant deaths from co-bed sleeping is a major issue.

- Said infant deaths from co-bed sleeping is a major issue.

Public Safety

Donald W Cleveland

- 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. 

The chief medical examiner for the county

Henry Coroner

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