Bridgeport lawmakers are presenting a bill requiring timely reporting to next of kin, following the deaths of Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls.
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The deaths of two women from Bridgeport, Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls, have sparked calls for legislation requiring the timely reporting by the police of a death to the next of kin. House Bill 5349 was the subject of a public hearing on Zoom before the legislature’s judiciary committee on Wednesday.
The families of Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls, two Black women who died Dec. 12 in unrelated incidents, said Bridgeport police never notified them of the women's deaths.
Relatives of two Bridgeport women who died on the same day in December cried Wednesday as they urged state legislators to pass a law requiring police to