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Ed received certification as a medicolegal death investigator through the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators in 2009.

Ed was deputy coroner for 10 years. He sits on the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators Board of Directors and their Advisory Council. Ed has also been a volunteer with Oconee Fire Rescue for 40 years.

Ed Carson has served as Coroner in Oconee County for the past 12 years.

As of March 19, 2024, Ed Carson did not have a website or any information online.

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Ed Carson

Prior to becoming Coroner in Oconee County, Ed was deputy coroner for 10 years. He sits on the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators Board of Directors and their Advisory Council. Ed has also been a volunteer with Oconee Fire Rescue for 40 years.

Ed Carson has served as Coroner in Oconee County for the past 16 years.

As of March 19, 2024, Ed Carson did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

- 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. 

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