Governor Maura Healey's administration concedes that not all emergency shelter residents have been subjected to background checks.
State officials say they will begin conducting the criminal offender record information searches on shelter residents immediately.
The issue came to the forefront with the recent arrest of a migrant at a Quincy hotel shelter with ten pounds of fentanyl and an assault rifle.
All people will now be screened before being allowed into the emergency shelter system.
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