The proposal comes a day before her State of the Commonwealth address and as Republicans are seeking greater oversight of the troubled system.

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.

The state has been conducting searches for sex offenses and outstanding warrants — but not checks of past criminal activity.

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 right-to-shelter law.

The residency requirements could effectively end the law as it's currently applied, meaning newly arrived immigrants could be ineligible for beds. The post Healey proposes major changes to right-to-shelter law,

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

Gov. Maura Healey proposed a series of major changes to state-run emergency shelters Wednesday that attempt to cordon off the maxed-out system from individuals who are not Massachusetts residents, including by implementing a three-month residency requirement.