26-16-114
Section 26-16-114 Investigations; training; protocol and reporting forms. (a) An investigation shall be performed utilizing protocol and forms approved by the Alabama Sudden Unexplained Infant Death Investigation (SUIDI) Team in all incidents of infant deaths. (b) All law enforcement agencies within this state are responsible to ensure that all personnel who investigate infant deaths obtain training developed by the SUIDI Team on investigation protocol and completing reporting forms. (c) All elected and appointed coroners and deputy coroners are responsible for obtaining training on investigation protocol and completing reporting forms in cases of infant deaths. (d) The training, which shall be developed by the SUIDI Team, shall include a focus on the importance of being sensitive to the grief of family members and shall be consistent with the death scene investigation protocol approved by the SUIDI Team. (e) The Alabama Department of Public Health shall be responsible for developing a...
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26-16-96
may succeed themselves but shall not serve more than two consecutive terms. Terms for these members shall be staggered. (f) The initial meeting of the local team shall be held within 60 days of September 11, 1997. (g) A quorum for conducting all activities shall be determined by the local team. A simple majority of members present constituting a quorum shall be required for any affirmative vote. (h) The purpose of the local team is to decrease the incidence of unexpected/unexplained child injury and death by the following means: (1) Identifying factors which make a child at risk of injury or death. (2) Sharing information among the agencies which provide services to children and families or which investigate child deaths or provide services. (3) Improving local investigations of unexpected/unexplained child deaths by participating agencies. (4) Improving existing services and systems and assisting in the establishment of additional services and systems to fill in gaps in the...
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41-15B-2.2
5. Provision of other forensic services for children when requested by the council. b. The Department of Forensic Sciences shall prepare an annual accounting of the distribution of monies received and the effectiveness of programs implemented pursuant to this chapter and shall file the accounting with the council before July 1. Sufficient safeguards shall be implemented to ensure that the new monies increase and not supplant or decrease existing state support. (12) One-half of one percent of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Rehabilitation Services for distribution to one or more of the following: a. Early intervention services for children from birth through age three and services for children who have traumatic brain injury. b. Child death review teams pursuant to Article 5 of Chapter 16 of Title 26. The Department of Rehabilitation Services shall work in cooperation with the Department of Public Health to administer this paragraph. (Act 99-390, p. 628, §3.)...
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26-16-113
Section 26-16-113 Alabama Sudden Unexplained Infant Death Investigation Team. (a) There is established the Alabama Sudden Unexplained Infant Death Investigation (SUIDI) Team which for administrative purposes shall be organized within the Department of Public Health as a subcommittee of the State Child Death Review Team. The team is charged with the development, maintenance, and provision of SUIDI training curricula for the State of Alabama. The development and approval of infant death investigation protocol and reporting forms are not subject to the rule-making requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act. (b) In order to implement this article, the SUIDI Team shall do all of the following: (1) Establish infant death scene investigation protocol. (2) Develop and maintain the training standards, policies, and procedures related to investigating and reporting SUID in Alabama. (3) Approve a standardized reporting form to be used in conjunction with the above procedures. (Act 2011-705,...
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26-16-115
Section 26-16-115 Duties of county coroner or medical examiner. (a) In every case of SUID, the county coroner or medical examiner shall be notified and cooperate and assist law enforcement with the death investigation. (b) The county coroner or medical examiner shall obtain legal authorization to send the infant to a forensic pathologist for examination. (c) The county coroner or medical examiner shall contact the appropriate law enforcement personnel to conduct a death investigation according to the protocol developed by the SUIDI Team. The investigation shall be initiated within 24 hours of the time the appropriate law enforcement personnel is contacted. (d) The county coroner or medical examiner shall send a copy of the SUIDI Team approved investigative form to the forensic pathologist conducting the autopsy. (Act 2011-705, p. 2184, §6.)...
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9-11-21
Section 9-11-21 Investigation of hunting deaths by grand jury; reporting of such accidents. (a) Any hunting accident involving a gun or bow and arrow when such accident results in death and when such death is caused by one person against another, upon the recommendation of the conservation department, shall be investigated by the grand jury of the county in which said death occurs. (b) All accidents referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be reported by the law enforcement agency chiefly involved in the investigation of said death to the office of the Director of the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources within 72 hours of said death, by the coroner and the sheriff's department of the county in which the death occurred. (Acts 1987, No. 87-730, p. 1423, §§1, 2.)...
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45-49-171.63
Section 45-49-171.63 Investigation of deaths. It shall be the duty of the county medical examiner to investigate any death in Mobile County when the death may fall within one or more of the following categories: (1) Any death that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly, that is, when the person has not been under medical care for significant heart, lung, or other disease. (2) Any death suspected to be due to violence, resulting, that is, from suicidal, accidental, homicidal, or undetermined injury, regardless of when or where the injury occurred. (3) Any death suspected to be due to alcohol or drugs or exposure to toxic agents. (4) Deaths due to poisoning. (5) All deaths of persons in the custody of law enforcement officers or in penal institutions. (6) Deaths suspected to be involved with the decedent's occupation. (7) Deaths unattended by a physician. (8) Any death due to neglect. (9) Any stillbirth of 20 or more weeks' gestation unattended by a physician. (10) Deaths due to criminal...
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26-16-91
Section 26-16-91 Definitions. The following words and phrases have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) AUTOPSY. An external and internal examination, medical history, and record review. (2) CHILD. A person who has not yet reached his or her eighteenth birthday. (3) CHILD DEATHS TO BE REVIEWED. Those deaths which are unexpected or unexplained. (4) COMMUNITY. The people and area within the local team jurisdiction. (5) COUNTY. The county in which a deceased child resided prior to his or her death. (6) INVESTIGATION. In the context of child death, includes all of the following: a. A postmortem examination which may be limited to an external examination or may include an autopsy. b. An inquiry by law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction into the circumstances of the death, including a scene investigation and interview with the child's parents, guardians, or caretakers and the person who reported the child's death. c. A review of information...
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26-19-4
Section 26-19-4 Specific functions of bureau. ACMEC shall be responsible for the following specific functions: (1) To receive and promptly enter into the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency's computer system all reports of law enforcement agencies, and other persons and agencies, of missing children and adults, exploited children, and of unidentified deceased persons, and all pertinent information submitted by the person or agency reporting which is contained in any investigation or investigations conducted pursuant to the report. ACMEC shall promptly enter the information in the NCIC computer network. If a missing person is subsequently found or if an unidentified deceased person is subsequently identified, and the information is reported to the ACMEC, ACMEC shall maintain, as necessary, the data for law enforcement purposes only. (2) To coordinate with and provide assistance to state and local public and private nonprofit agencies, including those of other states and the federal...
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45-2-61.06
Section 45-2-61.06 Responsibility to certify deaths. If after conducting a coroner's investigation of a death, the Baldwin County Coroner or the designated deputy coroner is satisfied that the death was not caused by a criminal act or omission, that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, that the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction has no questions about the death, and that he or she knows to a reasonable certainty the cause of death, then he or she or the designated deputy coroner may execute a death certificate in the form required by law and authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate as prescribed by the State Health Department. If the deceased is unidentified or if the Baldwin County Coroner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission or if the cause of death is obscure or if the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction has questions about the death, the coroner shall ask a medical examiner for assistance in the death...
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