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45-2-61.05
Section 45-2-61.05 County coroner or state medical examiner may take charge of bodies. While
conducting a coroner's investigation of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner or state
medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and he or she or a law
enforcement officer having jurisdiction may take possession and examine or have examined related
physical evidence on or about the body at the scene as may be useful in establishing identity
of the deceased or the cause, manner, and circumstances of death. The Baldwin County Coroner
is authorized to take or order the taking of certain tissues and fluids under Section 22-19-80.
When a state medical examiner takes charge of a body, he or she is authorized to take, retain,
and examine or have examined whatever tissues, biological fluids, or other evidence from the
body he or she deems necessary to determine the cause, manner, and circumstances of death
and the identity of the deceased. (Act 92-691, 2nd Sp. Sess.,...
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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, ยงยง1,
2.)...
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22-19-182
Section 22-19-182 Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction
of coroner or medical examiner. (a) Upon request of a procurement organization, a coroner
or medical examiner shall release to the procurement organization the name, contact information,
and available medical and social history of a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction
of the coroner or medical examiner. Specific operational details regarding visitation, referral
methods, recovery logistics, and efforts to minimize interruptions to the operations of the
coroner and/or medical examiner will be established in the protocols referenced in Section
22-19-181 (d). Section 164.512 of the Health Information Portability and Protection Act, enacted
1996, specifies that a covered entity may use or disclose protected health information to
organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking, or
transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissues for the...
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22-52-10.9
Section 22-52-10.9 Order finding defendant insane, mentally incompetent, etc., to be entered
into information systems; civil review. (a)(1) Upon any finding that a defendant is insane,
mentally incompetent, or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to Chapter
16 of Title 15, or the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure, the judge shall immediately forward
the order of the finding to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the order shall be entered
in its information systems. The order shall be forwarded to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency
in the manner as the Alabama Justice Information Center Commission shall provide. (2) The
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, as soon as possible thereafter, shall enter the order in the
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and the information shall be entered
into the NICS Index Denied Persons File. (3) The records maintained pursuant to this section
shall only be used for purposes of determining eligibility to...
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32-2-120
Section 32-2-120 Creation of system; activation of alert; powers and duties; boundaries of
alert area; termination of alert; liability. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following
terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ALERT SYSTEM. The Blue Alert system. (2) DEPARTMENT.
The Department of Public Safety. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Department of Public Safety.
(4) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. A law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the search for
a suspect in a case involving the death or serious injury of a peace officer or an agency
employing a peace officer who is missing in the line of duty. (5) PEACE OFFICER. A person
who is certified to exercise the power of arrest under the laws of this state. (b) There is
established a statewide alert system known as Blue Alert which shall be developed and implemented
by the director, who is the statewide coordinator of the alert system. (c) The alert system
may be activated under either of the following circumstances: (1)...
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22-19-80
Section 22-19-80 Authority of coroners, deputy coroners, State Toxicologist and law enforcement
officers; purpose of taking samples. (a) Each duly elected or appointed coroner in the State
of Alabama is authorized to withdraw and retain or direct the withdrawal and retention of
blood and/or urine from the dead body of a person who died unattended by a physician, or who
died under suspicious circumstances, or where there is reasonable cause to believe the person
died from unnatural and/or unlawful causes. (b) Each duly elected or appointed deputy coroner
shall have the same authority to withdraw and retain or direct the withdrawal and retention
of a blood and/or urine sample when acting for the coroner. (c) The State Toxicologist and
his designated or appointed assistants are authorized to withdraw and retain or direct the
withdrawal and retention of blood and/or urine from the dead body of a person who died unattended
by a physician, or who died under suspicious circumstances, or where...
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15-5-55
Section 15-5-55 Wireless communications service provider to provide location information in
certain emergency situations. (a) This section shall be known and cited as the Kelsey Smith
Act. (b) Upon request of a law enforcement officer as defined in Rule 1.4 of the Alabama Rules
of Criminal Procedure, who is on duty and acting in the course of his or her official duties
at the time of the request, a wireless communications service provider shall provide call
location information concerning the telecommunications device of a user to the requesting
law enforcement officer as soon as practicable after receipt of the request and after a showing
that an emergency situation exists at the time of the request by the law enforcement officer.
(c) A law enforcement officer shall not request information pursuant to this section unless
the request is made for the specific purpose of responding to a call for emergency services
or in an emergency situation that involves the risk or threat of death or...
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32-10-7
Section 32-10-7 Written reports of accidents; release of information. (a) Every law enforcement
officer who in the regular course of duty investigates a motor vehicle accident, either at
the time of and at the scene of the accident or thereafter by interviewing participants or
witnesses, shall, within 24 hours after completing such investigation, forward the necessary
completed written report or copy thereof of such accident to the director on the uniform accident
report form supplied by the director. Local police departments, and their contracted agents,
may retain copies of the written reports. (b) Accident reports prepared pursuant to this section
shall be made available pursuant to Section 32-2-8, to a news-gathering organization solely
for the purpose of publishing or broadcasting the news. The news-gathering organization shall
not use or distribute the report, or knowingly allow its use or distribution, for a commercial
purpose other than the news-gathering organization's...
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26-16-94
Section 26-16-94 State Child Death Review Team - Purpose; duties. The purpose of the state
team is to decrease the risk and incidence of unexpected/unexplained child injury and death
by undertaking all of the following duties: (1) Identifying factors which make a child at
risk for injury or death. (2) Collecting and sharing information among state team members
and agencies which provide services to children and families or investigate child deaths.
(3) Making suggestions and recommendations to appropriate participating agencies regarding
improving coordination of services and investigations. (4) Identifying trends relevant to
unexpected/unexplained child injury and death. (5) Reviewing reports from local child death
teams and, upon request of a local team, individual cases of child deaths. (6) Providing training
and written materials to the local teams to assist them in carrying out their duties. Such
written materials shall include model protocols for the operation of the local teams....
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12-15-102
Section 12-15-102 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have
the following meanings: (1) ADULT. An individual 19 years of age or older. (2) AFTERCARE.
Conditions and supervision as the juvenile court orders after release from the Department
of Youth Services. (3) CHILD. An individual under the age of 18 years, or under 21 years of
age and before the juvenile court for a delinquency matter arising before that individual's
18th birthday, or under 19 years of age and before the juvenile court for a child in need
of supervision matter or commitment to the State Department of Mental Health or under 19 years
of age and before the juvenile court for a proceeding initiated under Section 12-15-115(b)(2).
Where a delinquency petition alleges that an individual, prior to the individual's 18th birthday,
has committed an offense for which there is no statute of limitation pursuant to Section 15-3-5,
the term child also shall include the individual subject to the...
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