26B-8-229. Psychological autopsy examiner.
(1) With funds appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose, the department shall provide compensation, at a standard rate determined by the department, to a psychological autopsy examiner.
(2) The psychological autopsy examiner shall: work with the medical examiner to compile data regarding suicide related deaths; as relatives, associates, and acquaintances of the deceased are willing, gather information regarding the circumstances that preceded the decedent's death; maintain a database of information described in Subsections (2)(a) and (b); in accordance with all applicable privacy laws subject to approval by the department, share the database described in Subsection (2)(c) with the University of Utah Department of Psychiatry or other university-based departments conducting research on suicide; coordinate no less than monthly with the suicide prevention coordinator described in Subsection; and 26B-5-611(2) coordinate no less than quarterly with the state suicide prevention coalition.