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Riverside County Sheriff / Coroner's Bureau
It is the duty of the Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner to inquire and determine the circumstances, cause, manner and mode of certain deaths. Government Code, State of California, Section 27491, and Health and Safety Code Section 102850 mandate the Sheriff-Coroner to inquire into the following deaths:
Additionally, the Riverside County Coroner typically investigates cases such as:
- Unattended deaths
- Wherein deceased has not been attended by a physician in the 20 days prior to death
- Physician unable to state the cause of death
- Known or suspected homicide
- Involving any criminal action or suspicion of a criminal act, in whole or in part
- Known or suspected suicide
- Related to or following known or suspected self-induced or criminal abortion
- Associated with a known or alleged rape or crime against nature
- Following an accident, or injury (primary or contributory, occurring immediately or at some remote time)
- Drowning, fire, hanging, gunshot, stabbing, cutting, starvation, exposure, alcoholism, drug addiction, strangulation or aspiration
- Accidental poisoning (food, chemical, drug, therapeutic agents)
- Occupational diseases or occupational hazards
- Known or suspected contagious disease constituting a public health hazard
- Deaths in the custody of law enforcement, in prison or while under sentence
- Deaths in state hospitals serving the mentally or developmentally disabled
- Suspected Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Known or suspected to constitute a public health hazard
- All emergency and operating room deaths
- Deaths with known or suspected contribution by a therapeutic procedure
- All deaths where a patient has not fully recovered from an anesthetic, whether in surgery, recovery room or elsewhere
- Deaths occurring under 24 hours in a hospital
- Deaths of patients who have had surgery during the current hospital admission
- All deaths in which the patient is comatose throughout the period of physician attendance, whether at home or hospital
- Solitary deaths (unattended by physician or other persons in period proceeding death)
- Deaths of unidentified persons
- All deaths of persons who are charges of the state
- Deaths of children
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