DeKalb County Police Department

The DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office works diligently around the clock to provide the community with comprehensive medicolegal death investigations and postmortem examinations concerning all manners of death within the local municipalities of Eastern Atlanta (Avondale, Brookhaven, Clarkston, Chamblee, Decatur, Doraville, Dunwoody, Lithonia, Pine Lake, and Stone Mountain). Our objective is to apply the expertise knowledge of forensic science and medicine to investigate deaths and provide answers to families and victims with the intent to protect public safety and health. The medical examiner investigates deaths required by law that are reportable to the DeKalb County Medical Examiner and which fall under the jurisdiction of the Georgia Death Investigation Act, O.C.G.A. § 45-16-2 requiring cases to be reported 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, including all weekends and holidays.