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Albany County begins public discussion of switching from coroner to medical examiner and exploring regional autopsy facility
Summary
Legislators held a public hearing and a data-driven presentation on options to replace Albany County’s coroner model with a medical examiner system or to pursue a regional autopsy facility; no vote was taken and the presentation is the start of a staged discussion.
Albany County held a public hearing and received a lengthy staff presentation on proposed local law N (2024), which would amend the county charter to allow the county to switch from the current coroner model to a medical examiner model. County staff framed the discussion as preliminary and exploratory; the chair indicated no motion to move the law would be taken that evening.
Rebecca Kennedy, majority counsel, and Faye Betters, data analytics and performance management coordinator in the county’s management and budget office, presented a slide-based comparison of coroner and medical examiner models in New York and summarized…
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