This guide provides questions and answers about CORI including:

• what is CORI and how to get it
• sealing records
• juvenile records
• immigrants and CORI sealing
• CORI self audits
• after your records are sealed
• use of sealed records in later court cases
• employment discrimination
• federal jobs and the FBI
• private background checks
• expungement and correcting CORI mistakes
• sealing cases in federal court or other states
• tax credits

It also includes two appendices: CORI resources for low income people and relevant forms.

This information relates to Massachusetts state court criminal records and Massachusetts law in effect on January 8, 2018.

This item was originally posted at http://www.masslegalservices.org/content/know-your-cori-rights-criminal-record-information-cori-sealing-and-cori-reform