The order comes in the wake of high-profile arrests of shelter residents accused of serious crimes.

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Healey orders more thorough background checks for shelter residents

Gov. Maura Healey's administration confirmed it was not conducting criminal background checks for state-run shelter residents.

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Maura Healey admin was not conducting criminal background checks for Massachusetts shelter residents

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Recent revelations about crime and violence in the state’s emergency shelters have provided a new flashpoint as lawmakers on Beacon Hill get ready to take up the Healey administration’s nearly half-billion dollar funding request for the cash-hungry system.

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Crimes in Mass. shelters fuel debate over Healey’s $425M funding request

Gov. Maura Healey on Friday discussed an interest in realigning the state’s right-to-shelter law “with its original intent,” opening up a possible area of debate in talks over her shelter spending bill. Healey’s comments came after the top House Republican blasted her administration for its oversight and for failing to realize that emergency shelter residents were not being screened with criminal background checks. Minority Leader Brad Jones sai…

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Gov. Healey interested in revisiting shelter law intent - Boston News, Weather, Sports

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

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Healey orders criminal background checks for people entering Mass. shelters

BOSTON (SHNS) - The arrest of an illegal immigrant with fentanyl and a loaded assault rifle at a family shelter site in Revere is putting an intense new light on safety in the maxed-out emergency assistance shelter program just as Gov. Maura Healey is seeking nearly half a billion dollars more to keep it running for the next six months. House Speaker Ronald Mariano said Wednesday that he is both shocked and outraged by the details of the Decembe…

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Screening emerging as issue in shelter debate

“Whether it’s incompetence, intransigence, or negligence, changes must be made,” House Minority Leader Brad Jones said.

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‘Time for heads to roll’: Top GOP leader slams Healey over failure to conduct full background checks on shelter residents - The Boston Globe

The border crisis isn’t just a Texas problem anymore. From New York to Chicago to Boston, Democratic strongholds are discovering what border states have known... The post Massachusetts Governor Migrant Program Scandal Goes Public: Aliens Using Shelter to Smuggle Drugs appeared first on Patriot Journal.

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Massachusetts Governor Migrant Program Scandal Goes Public: Aliens Using Shelter to Smuggle Drugs

A major seizure at a Massachusetts migrant hotel that led to an arrest has led to more changes to the shelter system.



Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey issued a statement Monday after Revere Police Patrol Units initiated an early morning investigation Friday inside a hotel room located at the Q

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Massachusetts Governor Healey announces tougher background checks for emergency shelter residents

The governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, has issued a state order for all those entering the shelter system to undergo criminal background checks after she said on Friday that she recently discovered that they were not being carried out. Healey has repeatedly said that Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state, but her handling of the shelter system crisis is being increasingly examined. She noted that with the state's right to shelter law, wri…

La gobernadora de Massachusetts, Maura Healey, ha emitido una orden estatal para que todos los que entren al sistema de refugios se sometan a verificaciones de antecedentes penales después de que ella dijo el viernes que recientemente descubrió que no se estaban realizando. Healey ha dicho repetidamente que Massachusetts no es un estado santuario, pero su manejo de la crisis del sistema de refugios está siendo cada vez más examinado. Señaló que …

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