2024 Georgia General Elections

2024 Georgia General Election Runoff

The Brunswick News, Judge makes ruling against McIntosh coroner

Georgia Department of Public Health, Melvin Amerson - McIntosh County

Melvin was arrested for disorderly conduct and a judge ordered a 12-month protective order and for him to surrender their home to his wife in 2012. 

As of July 25, 2024, Melvin Amerson did not have a website or any information online.

Melvin Amerson is a coroner in McIntosh County.

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Melvin Amerson

As of July 28, 2024, Melvin Amerson did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

Melvin Amerson is a Coroner in McIntosh County.

As of July 25, 2024, Melvin Amerson did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

As of July 30, 2024, Melvin Amerson did not have a website or any information online.

- 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

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