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Extreme Risk Protection Orders

  • An unidentified woman prays at a makeshift memorial in the parking lot of the Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Newington, Conn. Tuesday, March 10, 1998. The memorial was constructed on the site where Connecticut Lottery President Otho R. Brown was gunned down by Matthew Beck on Friday, March 6, 1998. Lottery workers returned to work for the first time since the shooting. (AP Photo/Richard Mei)
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    Red flag laws
    Fatou Sangare
    Officially, they’re called "extreme risk protection orders." Most people know them as “red flag laws." And right now in Connecticut and New York, they’re evolving.