Nueces County-Hidalgo County Postmortem Examination Interlocal Agreement records (County Clerk)

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Dear Ms. Tracey:

On June 12, 2023, the Nueces County Clerk's Office received your Public Information Act request for the following:

"Part A: A list of all out-of-county human remains received from Hidalgo and Cameron Counties since October 15, 2020 that includes the Nueces County case number, date the remains were received, and the disposition/disposal of the remains.

Part B: A metadata list of all emails regarding postmortem examinations sent or received from January 1, 2020 to June 1, 2023 between the Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office and Hidalgo County Justices of the Peace or any designee. Please provide for metadata information: Date sent, Sender, Attachments, File size, and Recipients (CC & BCC). If the agency's position is that the existing meta-data necessary to provide this list is not a pre-existing agency record, I will instead accept each and every non-duplicative response mail.

Part C: All records of payments received by Nueces County from Hidalgo County for medical examiner services since January 4, 2021, pursuant to the "Interlocal Agreement for Performance of Postmortem Examinations by the Nueces County Medical Examiner," indicating the Nueces County case numbers associated with each payment."

The Nueces County Courthouse was closed on June 19, 2023, in observance of Juneteenth.

The Nueces County Clerk's Office has no records responsive to your request.

Please note that pursuant to section 552.201(b) of the Texas Government Code, each elected county officer is the officer for public information and the custodian of the information created or received by that county officer's office. The Nueces County Clerk's office is not the custodian of records for the Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office. Generally, the chief administrative officer of a governing body is the officer for public information created or received by their office. The chief administrative officer for Nueces County is County Judge Connie Scott. Additionally in a county, each department head is an agent of the officer for public information. You must submit a request for public information to the applicable officer or agent for the information sought.

The information you seek may be maintained by the Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office. Therefore, please submit a request to the Nueces County Medical Examiner, Dr. Timothy Fagan.

The Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office's address is:

2610 Hospital Blvd.
Corpus Christi, Texas 78405

Sincerely,

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Alexandra Fielder
Assistant County Attorney
Nueces County Attorney's Office
901 Leopard St., Room 207
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
Phone: (361) 888-0391

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