When it comes to reports of sexual assaults and other incidents at migrant shelters, law enforcement and Gov. Maura Healey’s administration appear to be keeping things wrapped in a cloak of secrecy.

The public needs to know if there is a dangerous person in these shelters.

It’s one thing to require towns to provide shelters, but going silent on illegal activity or sexual assaults is a step too far.

It’s all about optics and a political agenda.

Because the Democratic governor has made housing migrants at hotels and other places a top priority, the last thing she wants is negative publicity.

But police and DAs are supposed to be putting public safety ahead of politics.

If there is sexual predator, authorities should announce that and treat it like every other sex offender case – making it public. And if someone is convicted of a sex crime, they go on the sex offender registry.

But instead of providing a full public accounting of any illegal activity, authorities are suppressing it.

The Herald has requested information about reported sexual assaults at a suburban migrant shelter and numerous police calls to various shelters but officials have not released information about them.

A spokesperson for Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan would not answer whether there is an investigation or incident at a shelter in Marlborough.

“We do not confirm or deny investigations.  There have not been any arrests for sexual assaults at that location,” spokesperson Meghan Kelly said.

What gives Healey the right to suppress public safety information or DAs to selectively release information about sex crimes?

This is why the public is rightfully skeptical about the $1 billion a year cost of housing migrants.

And it’s why Healey’s soft pedaling of a reported rape at a shelter in Rockland is so outrageous.

Cory B. Alvarez, 26, of Haiti, is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl, also from Haiti and staying at the hotel serving as a migrant shelter. The victim identified Alvarez as her attacker, according to authorities.

But Healey referred to the rape victim as the “alleged victim” and stated “things will happen.”

“We have the right systems in place. It is unfortunate that from time to time, things will happen…not just in shelter, but anywhere,” Healey said.

“My heart goes out to the victim, the alleged victim in this case, and her family. We need to let the criminal justice system do its work.”

That was not the only case of reported rape at a shelter and there have also been numerous cases of police being called to shelters.

But it’s been difficult to get any information about these other incidents, or about where the shelters are going.

Communities have usually not gotten any advance warning when a shelter opens, and have no choice but to accept them.

The Healey cloak of secrecy takes precedent.