Healey administration acknowledges it hasn’t been conducting full background checks on state homeless shelter residents
The state has been conducting searches for sex offenses and outstanding warrants — but not checks of past criminal activity.
Gov. Healey confirms lack of widespread criminal background checks in Massachusetts' state-run shelters
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey commissioned an independent review of security at state-run shelters and signaled an openness ...
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Background checks did not occur at all Massachusetts emergency shelter sites. Now, the governor is interested in revisiting the intent of the law
Healey's comments came after the top House Republican blasted her administration for its oversight and for failing to realize ...
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey proposes new changes to state shelter law
Less than a week after condemning security concerns surrounding a lack of background checks performed at shelters, ...
Healey proposes major changes to right-to-shelter law, including Mass. residency requirement
The residency requirements could effectively end the law as it's currently applied, meaning newly arrived immigrants could be ...
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey delivers State of the Commonwealth
The governor reflects on the progress made in her second year and looks ahead to her biggest priorities for 2025.
Healey says she ordered criminal background checks on all shelter residents last spring, but they didn’t happen
Gov. Maura Healey said Friday the state will conduct full criminal background checks on all emergency shelter residents, ...
State of Commonwealth: Healey vows lower costs, improve healthcare
Once one of Trump’s primary Massachusetts antagonists, Healey did not mention the president-elect by name in her hour-long ...