The “Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act” would prevent veterans from being denied their Second Amendment rights to ...

Tennessee has received millions of dollars in federal grants over the years to help clear backlogs in its gun background check system.

An MP has called for an overhaul of the criminal background check system after it was revealed a murderer spent two years working with children. Rashid Zaman, 44, worked for a charity visiting ...

Gov. Maura Healey reduced the cap on the number of families allowed in the state-run shelter system by 1,700 and released regulations that require applicants to the program to consent to a local ...

Adult shelter applicants must disclose their criminal histories and agree to a Criminal Offender Record Information, or CORI, ...

He lost his job and potential employers wanted nothing to do with him after doing a criminal background check. Even coaching youth soccer was out of the question. Now as he seeks to wipe his ...

It also imposed new background check requirements and restricting those with serious criminal offenses from entering the system, which is designed to temporarily assist homeless families in the state.

The Walker County Civil Service Board held a two-hour termination hearing on Friday, March 21, about the firing of ...

Healey said the changes “empower our team to keep families, staff and communities safe by enhancing our criminal background check process and disqualifying anyone who has been convicted of a ...