The Jones County News, Coroner Candidate: Matt Jarratt

Matthew is from Jones County, where he still lives today. He is married to his wife, with whom he has children. 

As of July 25, 2024, Matthew E. Jarrett did not have a website or any information online.

Ballotpedia, Matthew Everett Jarratt 

Matthew E. Jarrett currently serves as the Jones County Coroner. 

As of June 16, 2025, Matthew E. Jarrett did not have a website or any information online.

Public Health

Believes it is important for the coroner's office to hold a strong work relationship with local law enforcement. 

- Believes it is important for the coroner's office to hold a strong work relationship with local law enforcement. 

Public Safety

Matthew E. Jarrett

- 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. 