In 2013 it was transferred to the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services.
During the 1990s and early 2000s The DPW suffered under the corrupt eight-year leadership of Commissioner Theodore R.
[1] Anson was appointed Commissioner of the DPW by Governor John G. Rowland in 1995 following a career in the private sector.
Anson resigned in September 2003 after the Hartford Courant reported that he had taken a bribe in the form of free design work from the architecture firm Kaestle Boos Associates.
[2] Governor Rowland subsequently appointed James T. Fleming to lead the Department.