CT police departments have been forced to use paper-and-ink fingerprinting techniques after a new system went live on July 25.
Dave Altimari
Dave does in-depth investigative reporting for CT Mirror. His work focuses on government accountability including financial oversight, abuse of power, corruption, safety monitoring, and compliance with law. Before joining CT Mirror Altimari spent 23 years at the Hartford Courant breaking some of the state’s biggest, most impactful investigative stories.
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Fearing staff shortages, nursing homes have resisted vaccine mandates. The Delta variant is changing that.
Eighty-seven percent of Connecticut’s nursing home population has been vaccinated, while 70% percent of the workforce has been immunized.
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Hospitals hope mandates will boost workers’ stagnant vaccination rates
Most hospitals will require workers to be vaccinated against COVID by Sept. 30, even though workers’ vaccination rates have slowed.
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Special clinics use federal funds — and new methods — to vaccinate the state’s developmentally disabled
Advocates say some developmentally disabled people have struggled to get vaccinated. A federal grant is paying to address the problem.
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As mass vaccination sites close, focus turns to mobile clinics to reach targeted groups
As vaccination rates have slowed, mass vaccination sites have closed while the state shifted its focus to smaller clinics.
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Accused sex offender to return to CT to face charges in nursing home assault
Miguel Lopez will face charges in a case that focused attention on a loophole in Connecticut’s sex offender registry laws.
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More COVID vaccines are being wasted as demand drops
Nearly a third of all wasted COVID vaccine doses in CT were lost since the end of May.
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Republican Senator laments not being able to close sex offender registry loophole
The loophole allowed an out-of-state registered sex offender to be transferred to Connecticut with no notification to state officials.
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A convicted rapist was accused of sex assault at an East Windsor nursing home. Police had no idea he was there.
Nursing homes in Connecticut do not have to tell police when they admit a registered sex offender from another state.
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‘There’s a dividing line’ — Vaccination rates trace socioeconomic boundaries in CT
Public health officials are struggling to get vaccines across socioeconomic dividing lines in urban areas across the state.
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CT’s ‘yellow van’ vaccination clinics are giving half as many doses as a month ago
“Whatever [the strategic plan] is, it’s not working,” said one pastor.
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Vaccine clinic shut down after surprise investigation
The state Department of Public Health suspended a Kent-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation center from holding vaccinations clinics in February after discovering a state representative was handling and preparing vials of vaccine at an unsanctioned clinic in Southbury.
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CT records lowest COVID positivity rate in months: 1.34%
Demand starting to pick up for J&J vaccine after slow start
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Clinics across Connecticut to start taking walk-ups for COVID vaccine
Dozens of clinics will begin taking walk-ups on Tuesday
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Why it took days for one CVS store in CT to stop vaccinating New Yorkers
By the time state officials arrived at a Waterford CVS on Feb. 4 to investigate reports that New Yorkers were getting the COVID-19 vaccine, the pharmacy had already vaccinated more residents from the neighboring state than it had from Connecticut, according to state Department of Public Health documents. The documents show that DPH officials were […]