Governor says background checks she ordered at Massachusetts shelters didn't happen: "Absolutely unacceptable"
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 reported Thursday that Healey's administration has not been conducting CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) checks on people staying in the state's homeless shelters,
Healey says she ordered criminal background checks on all shelter residents last spring, but they didn’t happen
We’re going to get to the bottom of why that wasn’t happening,” Gov. Maura Healey vowed. The post Healey says she ordered criminal background checks on all shelter residents last spring, but they didn’t happen appeared first on Boston.
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 to residency requirements for the emergency assistance program after facing blowback for a lack of widespread criminal background checks in the system.
Gov. Maura Healey says background checks ordered at Massachusetts shelters didn't happen
Gov. Healey said she was recently informed that CORI checks at Massachusetts shelters weren't happening. WBZ-TV's Tiffany Chan reports.
Healey orders criminal background checks for people entering Mass. shelters
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 were not being performed.
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