Connecticut Expedites Death Notification Bill After Deaths Of 2 Black Women

Essence Magazine:

courtesy of the Smith-Fields Family/Rawls Family By Rayna Reid ·Updated April 14, 2022

Last week, House Bill (HB) 3549, which “would require police who respond to ‘a deceased person or the remains of a person’ to notify the family within 24 hours or if not, to document the reason they failed to do so,” advanced to the full Connecticut State legislature.

This legislation was drafted in response to the mysterious

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