HARTFORD, CT - Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is directing U.S. and state flags in Connecticut to return to full-staff at sunset on the evening of Tuesday, December 3, 2024.

Flags are currently lowered to half-staff statewide in remembrance of former Governor M. Jodi Rell, who passed away on November 20, 2024. Governor Rell will lay in state at the Connecticut State Capitol on Tuesday morning and a funeral service in her honor will be held that same afternoon at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford. A private interment ceremony will occur at the Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown on a date yet to be determined.