Unless you’re the sort who pays attention, you probably didn’t notice that Gov. Maura Healey’s office has quietly stopped publishing a detailed accounting of how taxpayer money is being spent on the state’s emergency shelter system.

And that matters. Because the bi-weekly reports sent to legislative leaders usually included some pretty big numbers.

One such report, published earlier this year, showed taxpayer spending on the system cruising toward $1 billion. The system houses both permanent Massachusetts residents and migrant new arrivals, with the state spending a weekly average of $3,870 per family.

That number dropped to an average of $1,182 per family in a report released earlier this month, as the number of families in the system also dropped precipitously.

However, when the state law authorizing the reports expired, they were discontinued. The news was first reported by The Boston Herald.

In a Sept. 22 letter to legislative leaders, administration Budget Czar Matthew J. Gorzkowicz and Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus said they were pulling the plug on detailed reporting on the system.

“Reporting on activities that are no longer ongoing, such as hotel shelter or spending from past fiscal years, may be found in previous bi-weekly reports,” they said

Instead of the data, the administration only notes that lawmakers approved $276 million in this year’s state budget for the shelter system, the average amount spent on families in shelter each week, and the total amount of cash spent from a reserve fund, according to The Herald.

The end of the reports, in some ways, marks the end of one immigration debate on Beacon Hill and the start of another, as the Republican Trump administration prosecutes hardline enforcement policies carried out by masked immigration agents in cities and towns across Massachusetts.

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During their short lifespan, the reports served as the most reliable barometer of public spending on the system, which, at its peak, housed more than 7,500 families and burned through hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

That made them easy political fodder for the Democratic administration’s critics on the right, who had been pressing Healey to turn off the tap of taxpayer largesse and to reform the state’s decades-old Right to Shelter Law.

The administration took steps to contain costs, ending hotel shelter stays, which had been the site of some disturbing crimes, and calling for residency requirements and other fixes.

Nonetheless, Healey’s critics, including two Republicans aiming for her job in 2026, pounced on the news of the reports’ demise, arguing that it represents another blemish on the state’s already spotty record for government transparency.

GOP hopeful Mike Kennealy, a former Baker administration official, said he’d keep releasing the information even without the statute authorizing it.

“I’d just keep doing it,” Kennealy, who served as Gov. Charlie Baker’s housing and economic development czar, told MassLive. “The idea that we’re stopping it because the law has expired is a terrible mistake.”

Brian Shortsleeve, who helmed the MBTA under Baker, pointed to the state’s poor marks for transparency and accused Healey of “hiding the ball.”

The right-leaning Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, the most vocal critic of the administration’s shelter policies, argued in a statement: ‘Transparency shouldn’t depend on a sunset clause.’

“Taxpayers deserve to know how their money is being spent every week, every month, every year,” the Boston-based group’s executive director, Paul Craney, said in a statement.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Healey’s housing office said the administration “inherited a shelter system that was not equipped to handle the surge in demand Massachusetts experienced these past few years.”

Healey “imposed reforms, such as a capacity limit, length of stay limit, residency requirements and background checks, that have successfully reduced caseloads and costs,” the spokesperson added, noting that the state expects costs in the 2026 budget year to be “hundreds of millions of dollars less” than in the 2025 budget year.

Republicans in the state Senate, meanwhile, said they’ll continue to press for transparency reforms with a new legislative proposal. So even if the reports are gone, there will be some accounting of spending on the shelter system.

The bill, which focuses on state contracts valued at $100,000 or more, “[addresses] serious issues that have been raised by multiple sources over the past several months and would significantly reduce the risk of impropriety whenever an emergency drives procurements,” Senate Minority Leader Bruce E. Tarr, R-1st Essex/Middlesex, said.

SPRINGFIELD — The city recognized breast cancer awareness month three days before thousands are expected to step off for the annual Rays of Hope run and walk fundraiser.

This year’s 32nd annual Rays of Hope event will start at 8 a.m. Sunday. As is tradition, the 32nd annual event will begin at Temple Beth El on Dickinson Street and travel through Forest Park. Over the three decades, Rays of Hope has raised more than $17 million which stays locally and funds treatments, research and other supports for breast cancer patients.

Standing on the front steps flanked by Mayor Domenic J. Sarno, Baystate Health Dr. Rawad Elias and Kathy Tobin, director of annual events and giving, for the Baystate Health Foundation, Lucy Giuggio-Carvalho talked about how the grassroots walk she started decades ago after being diagnosed with cancer morphed into a major fundraiser.

“It tells us we are important,” she said. “You are giving hope and love to all breast cancer survivors.”

Every year in the days before Rays of Hope, city employees wear pink and denim and raise money toward the cause. Over the years they have contributed more than $10,000 to Rays of Hope, Sarno said.

In addition, the Campanile Clock Tower at City Hall, the Union Station parking garage, the Basketball Hall of Fame and other buildings will display pink lights this month for the event, he said.

Sarno said he will attend Sunday’s walk wearing the pink soccer socks his daughter gave him years ago to ensure he was appropriately dressed. This year, the walk is even more significant as he continues to face his own battle with cancer.

There are also at least four women who work or have worked in his office who are cancer survivors and multiple others who work in City Hall, he said.

“It has affected people on my own staff and I continue my challenge to defeat my cancer,” Sarno said.

A week before the event the Health and Human Services Committee met with Baystate doctors, Health and Human Services Commissioner Helen Caulton-Harris and other to discuss concerns about cancer rates in Springfield.

City Councilor Brian Santaniello said he was concerned that Black women have a 38% higher mortality rate than white women who are diagnosed with cancer locally.

Doctors said the best tool continues to be early detection so it can be caught quickly. Early detection also means treatment does not have to be as aggressive in many cases.

While genetics play a big part, doctors also discussed economic concerns as well. Many women want to fight cancer but have to weigh out-of-pocket expenses for treatment and the fact that sometimes they have to be out of work.