The Connecticut Mirror

Gone in 15 days: How the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people’s cars

An Outlier: Connecticut allows towing companies to sell some people’s cars in just 15 days, one of the shortest windows in the country. Towed From Home: Many cars are towed not for violating the law ...
ProPublica

How Many Cars Have Connecticut Towing Companies Sold? The DMV Can’t Tell Us.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror and originally published in our Dispatches newsletter; sign up to receive notes from our ...
ProPublica

“Step in the Right Direction”: Connecticut DMV Commissioner Calls for More Reforms to State Towing Law to Protect Drivers

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Despite a slew of ...
Hartford Courant

Towed and gone: How CT DMV allows companies to sell people’s cars

This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica through its Local Reporting Network. Melissa Anderson was trying to wrestle her squirmy 2-year-old daughter into a winter coat in December 2021 ...
Hartford Courant

Reporters asked CT DMV for records. The agency said the info would cost $47,000

This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica through its Local Reporting Network. In the summer of 2022, a source called me with a tip about towing. “The details of how this works,” he ...
The Connecticut Mirror

How many cars have Connecticut towing companies sold? The DMV can’t tell us.

This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica through its Local Reporting Network. Sign up for our newsletter to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In the summer of ...