Matt McCluskey’s testimony on SB134 Monday opened with a list of words describing his daughter Lauren, a University of Utah student who should’ve turned 22 in February.
Lauren McCluskey was poised, he said. Beautiful, kind and exemplary. Excited about the future and happy about her everyday life.
Then — as his Monday evening testimony on the campus safety bill continued — came the painful pivot to the events leading up to his daughter’s death at the hands of a man she’d briefly dated.
"This bill is in some sense written in blood," McCluskey told lawmakers on the House Education Committee.