Connecticut legislators advance bill inspired by deaths of Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls

House Bill 5349 was inspired by two separate high-profile cases in Bridgeport in which Black women, Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls, had died and police failed to quickly notify their families.

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