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.

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration confirmed it was not conducting criminal background checks on residents in emergency shelters after months of the first-term Democrat telling the public that