DHEC to implement digital user-friendly death and birth certificates By Riley Bean | December 18, 2020 at 10:18 AM EST - Updated December 18 at 11:43 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Starting in the New Year, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control says they will launch a fully web-based system to generate more intuitive birth and death certificates.
DHEC’s Office of Vital Statistics in charge of the project and they say the system has undergone a multi-level software overhaul to strengthen security and enhance the overall user experience.
These changes will impact the appearance of birth and death certifications to make it easier to locate pertinent information, officials say.
A federal judge in Ohio has sided with transgender residents who sought to overturn a state policy that blocked them from changing sex markers on their birth certificates.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson granted summary judgment Wednesday to four transgender individuals, noting that the state had allowed such birth certificate changes in years past.
The policy, Watson wrote, “resembles the sort of discrimination-based legislation struck down under the equal protection clause… as nothing more than a policy ‘born of animosity toward the class of person affected’ that has ‘no rational relation to a legitimate government purpose.
He added, The court finds defendants policy to be unconstitutional and hereby permanently enjoins defendants from enforcing their policy.
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Wyoming reported another 23 deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the state s total to 351.
The Wyoming Department of Health still has not reported Teton County s third coronavirus death, which happened Dec. 6. A lag of up to several weeks can occur in the reporting process because deaths must be certified by the Department of Vital Statistics before they show up in the reports.
Though mortality numbers are not yet finalized and published for this year, COVID-19 is on pace to be the third or fourth leading cause of death in Wyoming in 2020. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from 2017 show that heart disease and cancer far outstrip other causes of death in the state, but after that, chronic lower respiratory disease killed 366 people that year and accidents 348.
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