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Where dealerships can be shopped, and where the risk is highest.

Call-recording consent and active enforcement exposure for every U.S. state and the District of Columbia.

New to recording consent? Read the field guide first, then come back and find your state.

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District of Columbia (small on the map, click here)
Tap any state, type a ZIP code, or use your location. The recording rule, the enforcement record, and what a shop covers will appear here, with a link to the full state profile.

The rules that apply in every state

What applies everywhere

Recording consent

Enforcement authority

Where the money comes from. In the 2026 dealer actions the dollar outcomes ran through state attorneys general and stipulated orders: Lindsay Auto Group ($3.1M civil penalty to Maryland plus full refunds to consumers charged more than $75M, April 2, 2026), Manchester City Nissan ($4M consumer redress, Connecticut, August 19, 2026, with two managers carrying $4.89M personal judgments), and Leader Automotive ($20M judgment, Illinois, December 2024). The FTC carries the injunction. The state statute carries the penalty.

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Your rooftops, your exposure

Add each dealership by ZIP code. We map every rooftop to its recording rule and enforcement exposure, then generate a report you can keep.

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This report is a general compliance reference, not legal advice. Consent and enforcement exposure change. Confirm the current rule with counsel before any recorded outreach. Argus shops every channel. In all-party states, voice shops are excluded because a call cannot be recorded there. Confirm the current rule with counsel before any recorded outreach.

How this is built

Methodology & sources

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Consent classification

Every state is classified one-party or all-party from 2026 statute-level sources, with the governing statute cited on each. Michigan reads one-party because its courts recognize a participant exception. Nevada is treated all-party as the conservative read of its Supreme Court.

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Enforcement rubric

High means an active state-attorney-general-joined action or an in-force statute expanding dealer liability. Elevated means documented FTC action or settlement history. Baseline means no state-specific dealer action on record; federal rules still apply. Every High and Elevated flag is tied to a named, sourced matter.

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Your exposure

A combined read of the two axes. Where enforcement is active and a shopper can also record the call, a store is most exposed and often least aware. That overlap is the highest tier on the exposure view.

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Local carve-outs

Call-recording consent is occupied by state wiretap law, so there are no municipal consent carve-outs. A small number of large metros run their own auto and consumer rules; those enter the enforcement layer once a primary source is confirmed.

Primary sources:

City coordinates from GeoNames (CC BY). State geometry from the U.S. Census via us-atlas. Dataset version , last updated .