The House on Thursday approved $425 million to replenish the cash-starved shelter family shelter system, while passing changes to tighten eligibility and shrink the system's size. Lawmakers passed the ...

Maura Healey ordered more thorough background checks be conducted for all residents of Massachusetts emergency assistance shelters in the wake of two high-profile arrests of shelter residents ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has ordered that everyone entering the state's shelter system undergo criminal background checks, saying Friday that she was surprised to recently learn the checks ...

BOSTON - Gov. Maura Healey said Friday that it's "absolutely unacceptable" that criminal background checks she ordered last spring at Massachusetts shelters never happened. The Boston Globe ...

Healey told reporters later Friday that she had ordered criminal background checks conducted on all shelter residents ... that's where, in fact, the majority of migrants, new arrivals to Massachusetts ...

The change would require adult applicants to “disclose criminal convictions in Massachusetts and elsewhere” as well as ...

SHE FILE Less than a week after condemning security concerns surrounding a lack of background checks performed at shelters, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is proposing changes to the state's ...

“Either the Governor has been dishonest with Massachusetts residents ... whether the state knew how many people with criminal backgrounds are now living in the shelter system, Bombard responded ...

Under the proposed rule, shelter applicants must disclose all criminal convictions in Massachusetts or elsewhere, and they will be subject to criminal background checks. The governor admitted last ...

FALL RIVER, MASS. (WJAR) — Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announcing a crackdown on criminal background checks of people living in emergency shelter facilities. It comes in the wake of two ...