The 48 affordable homes at the base of the 40 Thorndike office building have been slow to fill for a couple of reasons that ...

The Healey-Driscoll Administration is now ordering CORI background checks for all emergency assistance applicants after the governor ordered inspections of all Massachusetts emergency shelters ...

Gov. Maura Healey says background checks ordered at Massachusetts shelters didn't happen 02:34. BOSTON - Gov. Maura Healey said Friday that it's "absolutely unacceptable" that criminal background ...

“Background checks have always been done for emergency assistance applicants. The governor has now ordered CORI checks to be done as well,” the spokesman, Noah Bombard, said Friday.

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 ...

BOSTON — Gov. 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 ...

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