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The Hinds County coroner’s office, which took possession of Wade and Moore’s bodies after their deaths, has said it works closely with police on death notifications and relies on officers to ...
The Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi will examine the Jackson Police Department's policies on death notifications and provide ...
Death notification telegram, 1944. A death notification or, in military contexts, a casualty notification is the delivery of the news of a death to another person. There are many roles that contribute to the death notification process. The notifier is the person who delivers the death notice. Notifiers can be military, medical personnel or law ...
A Mississippi coroner’s office under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge has released a policy on death notifications that is unsigned and undated ...
[6] [2] Other examples include: pen registers that record the numbers dialed from particular telephones; [7] conversations with others, though there could be a Sixth Amendment violation if the police send an individual to question a defendant who has already been formally charged; [8] a person's physical characteristics, such as voice or ...
An individual's reputation and dignity after death is also subject to post-mortem privacy protections. [1] In the US, no federal laws specifically extend post-mortem privacy protection . At the state level, privacy laws pertaining to the deceased vary significantly, but in general do not extend any clear rights of privacy beyond property rights.
The death notification policy was made weeks after the Dexter Wade case. His family was never notified by JPD or the coroner's office about his death.
This reflects the role of a coroner: to determine the cause of death of a deceased in cases where the death was sudden, unexpected, occurred abroad, was suspicious in any way, or happened while the person was under the control of central authority (e.g., in police custody). Until 2013 a qualified medical practitioner could be appointed, but ...