The Georgia Death Investigations Act provides the guidelines on how law enforcement and other agencies are supposed to conduct death investigations in the state of Georgia. Through your research, you should learn about the roles of law enforcement, medical examiners, and coroners when investigating death investigations. After reading the Georgia Death Investigations Act you should be able to answer the following questions:
What is law enforcements role when conducting a death investigations? Why is the officers role so important to the investigations?
What is the difference between a coroner and a medical examiner? What are specific duties assigned to each?
What is the difference between causes of death and manner of death?
How is a death involving children differ from death involving adults?
Do all deaths require an investigation?
