Boston City Council filed a hearing order to audit the implementation of restorative justice practices in Boston Public Schools amid rising violence, along with an order to audit the city’s procurement process for contractors during its Wednesday meeting.
Michael Horrell, a staff attorney at Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts — an organization focused on protecting civil rights of people in prisons — said the pandemic has worsened the quality of health care in the state’s correctional facilities, which has “never been great.”
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles issued 1,905 licenses in the names of dead people, according to an audit released Thursday by the Massachusetts State Auditor. The RMV rejects the audit findings.
A Massachusetts audit released Tuesday found that nearly 1,800 of the state’s more than 13,000 registered sex offenders do not have a current address on file. Close to 1,000 offenders are also missing...
