As we have seen, criminal justice agencies and other government agencies by other laws, may be required to check criminal records; and most of the earlier parts of the CORI statute lay out who may have access to CORI. However, more recent enactments have gone beyond giving access and also mandate that CORI checks be done.

One such section requires that a broad class of governmental and private social service agencies must do a CORI check before hiring, or taking on as a volunteer, anyone who "will have any direct or indirect contact" with a client who is elderly (60 or older) or is disabled so as to be wholly or partially dependent on others to meet daily living needs.^[23]

Further, as noted previously, chapter 385 of the Acts of 2002 inserted new access provisions and CORI check mandates for organizations serving children.

[23]

G.L. c. 6, § 172C. This should not be confused with § 172 clause (c), which is often referred to, even by the CHSB, as " § 172(c)."