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State approaches vary: a minority of states explicitly treat full autopsy reports as public records while many restrict release to next of kin or redact medical and investigative details . Examples in...
State law on whether autopsy reports are “public records” varies widely: several states (e.g., Colorado, Texas, Alabama) have statutes or official guidance treating at least some autopsy reports as pu...
is governed by a mix of federal rules—most centrally —and a patchwork of and local coroner policies; HIPAA expressly permits disclosure to coroners/medical examiners but does not itself determine publ...