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Marathon County approves reorganization to create physician-led medical examiner office
Summary
The Public Safety Committee approved a reorganization that renames and retitles current positions, adds an autopsy supervisor and a second forensic pathologist, and anticipates moving operations to a new regional forensic science facility this summer.
The Marathon County Public Safety Committee voted May 6 to approve a reorganization of the county Medical Examiner's Office that the county said is needed to move to a physician-led Regional Forensic Science Center.
County Administrator Lance Leonard said the reorganization is required by statute for the chief medical examiner to be the head of the office and that the county will treat most operations as an enterprise fund to avoid increasing the tax levy. "That person is gonna report directly to me based on state statute that they're the head of the office and I oversee all the department heads under chapter 59.18," Leonard said.
Jess, Medical Examiner's Office staff, told the committee the county has recruited two forensic pathologists who passed pre-employment testing; the chief medical…
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