Application Forms
Effective Mar 1, 2024Mass. Register #1516MGL c. 115, § 2 MGL c. 115A, § 13Executive Office of Veterans Services
- (1) Disclosure of Criminal Records. No initial employment application form may ask whether an applicant has a criminal record. Only a candidate who has been first determined otherwise eligible for a position subject to a CORI and given a conditional offer of employment subject to consideration of any criminal record, may be asked to complete a supplemental form requiring the disclosure of the candidate’s criminal record. No inquiry may be made inconsistent with M.G.L. c. 151B, § 4.
(2) CORI Authorization Forms and Consent.
- (a) The hiring authority will ensure that a candidate provides consent to a CORI investigationand, where applicable, to the periodic conduct of further CORI investigations duringemployment.
- (b) All candidates must complete an appropriate CORI Acknowledgement Form and inaccordance with DCJIS regulations at 803 CMR 2.00: Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI), the hiring authority shall verify the candidate’s identity by forms of documentation asdetermined by DCJIS. If the hiring authority is unable to verify a subject’s identity and signaturein person, the subject may submit a completed CORI Acknowledgment Form acknowledged bythe candidate before a notary public.