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MA: Major Changes in CORI (Criminal Record Information)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

This is from the Boston Workers Alliance. On Friday, August 6, 2010, Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law major changes in CORI laws. For more information on the changes go to the Boston Workers Alliance website: http://www.bostonworkersalliance.org/ CORI Reform Information The core CORI reform proposals put forward by BWA and our allies in the Commonwealth CORI Coalition were included in the final bill. This included the reduction in the waiting period to seal records, ?banning the box,? and automatically removing non-convictions. Massachusetts will be the first state in the country to remove the criminal record question from initial job applications for all employers (both private and public). The bill also would put the CORI system online and open to employers to compete with private internet check companies...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 08, 2010 (boomark / email).