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Riverside County Sheriff / Coroner's Bureau
The number of juvenile deaths in the state has, for a long time, alarmed state and county health workers and law enforcement agencies. In 1992, California's legislature enacted laws to establish a multi-agency review board to review the deaths of children, by county, under the age of 17 years.
In Riverside County, the board is known as the "Child Death Review Team" or CDRT, and consists of representatives of the Sheriff-Coroner's Bureau (investigator, pathologist), the District Attorney's Office, Child Protective Services, a forensic pediatrician, Public Health Nursing Office, and representatives the law enforcement agency conducting the local investigation.
The purpose of the CDRT is to take a close look at each child death in Riverside County to determine (1) if the death could have been prevented, (2) if there was criminal activity involved in the death and (3) if other children in the home are at risk. The reviews are held monthly in the Sheriff-Coroner facility.
This office is active in gathering facts concerning infant deaths classified as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). We participate with state and local health officials in trying to find a common link causing the sudden deaths of seemingly healthy babies. Our investigators spend time at the place of death and with the family of each infant death during this investigation.
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