Administrative

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner employs a staff of six Administrative Specialists who are responsible for maintaining records related to death investigation, pathology, controlled substances and toxicology.  Currently, the scientists within the DNA laboratory generate their reports.

While many government records have retention schedules and are purged to make room for newer files, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner keeps hard copy files on all postmortem cases it has investigated dating back to 1956.  Computerized records began in 1999.