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Massachusetts Dems agree to $425M shelter reform bill. Now it goes back to the Senate.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted to advance a bill that would provide $425 million in funding for the state's ...
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Reaction to Massachusetts governor ordering background checks in emergency shelters
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 high profile incidents ...
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Who would be evicted from family shelters by new criminal background checks? Nobody.
Governor Maura Healey’s new policy requiring additional criminal background checks of all adults in the state’s family shelter system has one striking catch: It would not evict anyone who has ...
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Governor says background checks she ordered at Massachusetts shelters didn't happen: "Absolutely unacceptable"
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 ...
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More Uber drivers could fail background checks as stricter rules start to take effect
Those rules meant that Massachusetts would run its own background checks instead of leaving the screening process to Uber and Lyft. The results of those background checks are in, and 8,000 drivers ...
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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 ...