‘We have a 144-square-foot closet’: Coroner asks for makeshift morgue amid statewide funding ‘crisis’

‘We have a 144-square-foot closet’: Coroner asks for makeshift morgue amid statewide funding ‘crisis’

Summit County does not have a morgue, and when the county coroner visited the Summit Board of County Commissioners to discuss her office’s 2027 budget, she spent her time explaining why the current facility is not sufficient. Coroner Amber Flenniken said coroner’s offices around the state facing limited funding is a “crisis,” including in Summit County. The space her office uses to process bodies before releasing them for burial or autopsy is a …