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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
Section 26-16-96 Local child death review teams. (a) There are hereby created local child death
review teams. (b) Each county of the state shall be included in a local multidisciplinary,
multiagency child death review team's jurisdiction. The district attorney shall initiate the
establishment of local teams by convening a meeting of potential team members within 60 days
of September 11, 1997. In the absence of the initiation of a child death review team by the
district attorney within 60 days of September 11, 1997, the local public health representative
will initiate the first team meeting. During this meeting, participants shall recommend whether
to establish a team for that county alone or to establish a team with and for the counties
within that judicial circuit. (c) The local team shall include, but not be limited to, all
of the following members, the first five of whom are ex officio. The ex officio members may
designate representatives from their particular departments or offices...
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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning October
1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues and upon
appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five
thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated
for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs.
(b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First
Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in
the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1) Ten percent
of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution to one
or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for tobacco
control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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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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