2024 Georgia General Elections

2024 Georgia General Election Runoff

Bryant challenging Hackley for coroner position 

Erin went to Newnan High School and later graduated from West Georgia College.

Erin has previously worked as an EMT and Deputy Coroner in Troup County, and owns a lawncare company. She is a paramedic with American Medical Response.

Erin M. Hackley is the current coroner for Troup County.

Troup County Coroner candidates participate in forum

Believes one of the biggest challenges is obtaining more space for the coroner's office.

- Believes one of the biggest challenges is obtaining more space for the coroner's office.

Public Health

Erin Hackley elected as Troup County coroner 

Said “The biggest responsibility of the coroner is to ensure that no stone is left unturned in a death [investigation].”

Plans to work on granting funding and finding grant opportunities to get morgues in place.

- Said “The biggest responsibility of the coroner is to ensure that no stone is left unturned in a death [investigation].”
- Plans to work on granting funding and finding grant opportunities to get morgues in place.

Public Safety

Erin M Hackley

- 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

Troup Coroner

Election results

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