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Dear Dr. Traylor:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to the necessity of contacting you, as the coroner, directly in all matters pertaining to the coroner's office. You indicate you have developed a procedure designating two of your personnel to be called initially in case of deaths, substance abuse or requests for protective custody orders with the directive as to the procedure to contact you directly if these individuals, who are on call twenty-four hours per day, do not respond in a timely manner. However, there are some who insist on…