2024 Georgia General Elections

2024 Georgia General Election Runoff

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Jason lives in Lexington, Georgia with his family. He attended Athens Technical College.

Jason has worked as a paramedic for 27 years. He has been Oglethorpe County’s Emergency Medical Services director. He also served as a Deputy Coroner over the past year.

Jason M. Lewis has recently stepped in as interim coroner in Oglethorpe County.

Said, "I have been in public safety for over 25 years and have the experience necessary to continue the work of those Coroners who came before me."

- Said, "I have been in public safety for over 25 years and have the experience necessary to continue the work of those Coroners who came before me."

Public Health

As of July 25, 2024, Jason M Lewis did not have a website or any information online.

Public Safety

Jason M Lewis

- 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

Oglethorpe Coroner

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