INVESTIGATIONS
Leniency or Loophole? Juvenile car theft arrests surge despite reforms
Juvenile car theft arrests surged 350% after 2022 reforms. Are diversionary programs working—or creating a loophole with no accountability?
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Cash Money: Bridgeport special ed teacher allegedly pocketing students’ lunch money
Staff and parents in Bridgeport allege that special education teacher Daniel Scali is pocketing students change, among other complaints.
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Rehabilitation over Retribution: Efforts to improve Connecticut prisons
Connecticut prisons leave a lot to be desired in terms of culture, costs, and results. Volunteers are stepping up to make things better.
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Rage Bait: The costs and benefits of Connecticut’s marketing ploy
CT’s claim to superior pizza ruffled feathers, but that was the point. How has marketing a state changed, and what comes next?
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Blue Room: Restraining and secluding the state’s most vulnerable students
On May 20, 2024, teachers and administrators at Hazardville Memorial School in Enfield called the police on a five-year-old in kindergarten.
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State backs $2M claim against yoga studio after man asked to leave women’s class
A yoga studio owner asked a man to leave a women’s class. Now she faces a $2M claim, after a state agency determined she violated the law.
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Accused of Neglect: Connecticut conservator faces disbarment and lawsuits
Kristin Exner, a Connecticut lawyer and state-appointed conservator, made headlines last year when another attorney petitioned to have her disbarred. That petition followed two instances in which she sold houses owned by people whose estates she controlled to the co-owner of her real estate business. The houses were allegedly sold below market rate and then resold by her real estate company for a profit. The complaint was forwarded to a local grievance panel by the Statewide…
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Dropped Charges: A Connecticut woman is dead. Her father says officials let her killer off easy.
On Feb. 10, 2024, Allie Standish, a 37-year-old Wolcott woman, was killed. Her father says Connecticut officials have not delivered justice.
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Priced Out: FOI requesters sound the alarm as hourly FOIA fees may be coming to Connecticut
If you were to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today and specify that you are seeking documents in electronic format, there’s a good chance that request won’t cost you anything. That’s because the fees public agencies can pass on to requesters cannot exceed what it costs to fulfill that request. While you can be charged a per-page copying fee, capped at 25 cents per page, for paper records, there…
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Last Resort: Court petitions for electroshock treatment increase
In 2024, Connecticut probate judges approved nearly two hundred petitions from psychiatric hospitals to administer electroconvulsive therapy.
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The Candy Store: Tracking down the nonprofits that prompted a press conference
A number of nonprofits were brought up in an October press release as potentially suspicious. We tracked them down to learn more.
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Overtime: As costs grow to $399 million, explanations vary
Obtaining overtime information from state officials is not easy. That means rising costs with no clear causes or ways to pursue solutions.
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“Weaponized” wetlands: A neighborhood dispute in Haddam goes legal
Connecticut law defines wetlands as more than just naturally occurring bodies of water like bogs, marshes and swamps.
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