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Line of Duty Death Benefits: Firefighters' Line of Duty Death Protocol
Line of Duty Deaths: Firefighter Autopsy Protocol
Line of Duty Deaths: Public Safety Officers Benefit Program (USDOJ Death Benefits)
NIJ Death Investigation Guidelines
NIJ Death Investigation Guidelines (2011)
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Conflicts of Interest; Code of Ethics
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Dealing With a Death Within Your Office
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Death Investigation Best Practices
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Determination of Death
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Ebola-exposed Decedents
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Media Relations
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Release of Photos
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Release/Sale of Reports and Photos
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Releasing the Names of Juveniles
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Retention of Suicide Notes/Documents
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Staffing Formulas
PSCA Administrative Guidelines: Subpoena Power and Issuance
SWGMDI Best Practices: Certification of Death Investigators
SWGMDI Best Practices: Communicating with Nexts-of-Kin
SWGMDI Best Practices: Media Relations
SWGMDI Best Practices: Research in Forensic Pathology / Death Investigation
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Solicitors' Opinions
2026: Advisory Opinion on Jurisdiction of Disinterred Human Remains
Solicitor's Opinion: Are Association Meetings; Training Subject to Right To Know Law
Solicitor's Opinion: At What Point Is A Body Considered Abandoned/Unclaimed; Responsibility Of Coroner For Abandoned/Unclaimed Body in Facility; Funeral Home
Solicitor's Opinion: Authorization/Ability To Appoint Staff Members Regardless of Title
Solicitor's Opinion: Defining The Role of Deputy Coroner (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitor's Opinion: Does Legal Kinship Change When A Next Of Kin Dies; Can Final Wishes Stated In A Will Override Next Of Kin (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitor's Opinion: Holding An Inquest On A Person Missing or Presumed Dead (2022 / Shanaman / For Cambria County)
Solicitor's Opinion: Is Data Provided to DDAP / MDAIR Subject to the Right To Know Law? (2022 / Shanaman / for Northampton County)
Solicitor's Opinion: Is It Permissible To Release Medical Records; Protected Information To Law Enforcement Agencies (2023 / Uhrich)
Solicitor's Opinion: Right To Control Disposition of a Deceased / Body (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitor's Opinion: Right To Know Request For Autopsy Records; Toxicology Records for 20 Year Period (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitor's Opinion: Right To Know Requests Made By UCLA, AP For Autopsy Records
Solicitor's Opinion: Right To Know Requests Made By Various Agencies / Entities (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitors' Opinions: Part 1 (Weinert)
Solicitors' Opinions: Part 2 (Shanaman)
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Articles
2026: Advisory Opinion on Jurisdiction of Disinterred Human Remains
Solicitor's Opinion: Are Association Meetings; Training Subject to Right To Know Law
Solicitor's Opinion: At What Point Is A Body Considered Abandoned/Unclaimed; Responsibility Of Coroner For Abandoned/Unclaimed Body in Facility; Funeral Home
Solicitor's Opinion: Authorization/Ability To Appoint Staff Members Regardless of Title
Solicitor's Opinion: Defining The Role of Deputy Coroner (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitor's Opinion: Does Legal Kinship Change When A Next Of Kin Dies; Can Final Wishes Stated In A Will Override Next Of Kin (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitor's Opinion: Holding An Inquest On A Person Missing or Presumed Dead (2022 / Shanaman / For Cambria County)
Solicitor's Opinion: Is Data Provided to DDAP / MDAIR Subject to the Right To Know Law? (2022 / Shanaman / for Northampton County)
Solicitor's Opinion: Is It Permissible To Release Medical Records; Protected Information To Law Enforcement Agencies (2023 / Uhrich)
Solicitor's Opinion: Right To Control Disposition of a Deceased / Body (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitor's Opinion: Right To Know Request For Autopsy Records; Toxicology Records for 20 Year Period (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitor's Opinion: Right To Know Requests Made By UCLA, AP For Autopsy Records
Solicitor's Opinion: Right To Know Requests Made By Various Agencies / Entities (2022 / Shanaman)
Solicitors' Opinions: Part 1 (Weinert)
Solicitors' Opinions: Part 2 (Shanaman)
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