An inspection of inns and motels serving as state-run shelters for migrants and locals that Gov. Maura Healey ordered this month didn’t flip up any extra main points or legal exercise, her workplace mentioned in a press release to the Herald Friday.
Healey ordered the overview of state-run emergency help shelters after a Dominican man who was unlawfully in america was arrested at Revere shelter with an AR-15 and an alleged fentanyl stash value $1 million. The incident sparked safety considerations for shelters.
A spokesperson for Healey mentioned officers accomplished the inspection of all inns and congregate websites and no “major” points or legal exercise have been recognized. Officers are nonetheless conducting weekly room inspections, in line with Healey’s workplace.
Suppliers are additionally nonetheless performing inspections of scattered shelter websites, which the spokesperson mentioned are anticipated to be accomplished by the top of January. No main points or legal exercise has to this point been recognized in these checks, the spokesperson mentioned.
The inspections got here after police arrested Leonardo Andujar Sanchez of the Dominican Republic for allegedly possessing 5 kilos of fentanyl and an assault rifle. Federal officers have mentioned he unlawfully entered the nation via an unknown location on an unknown date.
Days after initially ordering the inspection, the Healey administration made public a trove of paperwork that detailed greater than 1,000 critical incidents reported at shelters, together with disturbing particulars about allegations of bodily and sexual assault, rape, and home violence.
Healey then confronted criticism for an absence of widespread legal background checks towards the legal offender file data database for all residents within the shelter system, although not less than one prime Home Democrat has since questioned whether or not CORI checks are helpful to make use of on migrants.
The primary-term Democrat mentioned she gave a verbal directive in April 2024 to the state’s housing division to conduct CORI checks for all residents in any respect emergency help shelters however was later informed they weren’t occurring.
The governor’s workplace didn’t present any paperwork, emails, written memorandums, or different bodily proof to again up the verbal directive in response to an inquiry from the Herald.
State rules don’t require CORI checks, which have all the time occurred for individuals coming into overflow shelters, however Healey ordered them for all websites after the blowback and has additionally known as on Beacon Hill lawmakers to approve a collection of shelter restrictions that might hold out migrants.
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