• Landlords being statutorily forbidden from receiving reimbursement from towing companies for recovered vehicles (if this is a revenue stream for landlords, it incentivizes the worst behaviors by landlords and the towing companies they hire)
• Landlords being statutorily required to include provisions in their contracts that allow them to override tow company decisions (your property manager/leasing office should be able to fix tow company mistakes. It's such a sham when they punt and say "Oh, that company that we contract with to patrol our parking lot like a shark? Yeah, um, we ackshully don't have any control over them, if you want your car back you'll have to go through them")
• Statutory requirement that lots which are subject to towing must have video surveilance, and must promptly make footage available to individuals who have been towed. No cameras, no tow. Landlord doesn't have video footage? Car must be returned
  • I suspect that the results would be a lot like police body cams; we'd catch the occasional bad act, but more often than not would see that the results were justified
• Establish a representative community counsel that considers towing appeals on a monthly basis and can make binding determinations. To be licensed as a towing company, you have to submit to the authority of that community counsel

The main problem, in my eyes, is that towing disproportionately impacts a group that has no political representation, and that the laws that are currently on the books actively disadgantage that group. A landlord has property rights, but so does the owner of a vehicle...