Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 103 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION › Title 103 CMR 157.00 - Access To And Dissemination Of Evaluative Information › Section 157.05 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Commissioner
. The Commissioner of the
				Department of Correction.
Criminal Offender Record Information
				(CORI)
. Records and data in any communicable form compiled by a
				criminal justice agency which concern an identifiable individual and relate to
				the nature or disposition of a criminal charge, an arrest, a pre-trial
				proceeding, other judicial proceedings, sentencing, incarceration,
				rehabilitation, or release. CORI shall be limited to factual statements about
				an individual's movement through any one or more of the formal stages of the
				criminal justice process. CORI shall not include
Intelligence
				Information
or
Evaluative Information
as
				those terms are defined in 103 CMR 157.05.
Criminal Record Review Board (CRRB)
. A
				statutorily-created board within the Department of Criminal Justice Information
				Services (DCJIS) that reviews complaints and investigates incidents involving
				allegations of violations of the laws governing CORI.
Department
. The Department of
				Correction.
Department of Criminal Justice Information Services
				(DCJIS)
. The Massachusetts agency statutorily designated to do the
				following: provide a public safety information system and network to support
				data collection, information sharing and interoperability for the Massachusetts
				criminal justice and law enforcement community; oversee the authorized
				provision of CORI to the non-criminal justice community; provide support to the
				CRRB; operate the Firearms Records Bureau; and provide and technically support
				the Victim Notification Registry for the victims of crime.
Evaluative Information
. Records, data,
				or reports, concerning identifiable individuals charged with crime(s) and
				compiled by criminal justice agencies, which appraise mental condition,
				physical condition, extent of social adjustment, rehabilitative progress,
etc
., and which are primarily used in connection with bail,
				pre-trial or post-trial release proceedings, sentencing, correctional, and
				rehabilitative planning, probation or parole.
Inmate Management System (IMS)
. The
				Department's automated information system that provides processing, storage and
				retrieval of inmate-related information needed by Department personnel and
				other authorized users within the criminal
Intelligence Information
. Records and
				data compiled by criminal justice agencies for the purpose of criminal
				investigation, including reports of informants, investigators or other persons,
				or any type of surveillance associated with an individual. Intelligence
				information shall also include records and data compiled by criminal justice
				agencies for the purpose of investigating a substantial threat of harm to an
				individual or to the order or security of a correctional institution.
Screening Employee
. The central office
				employee(s) designated by the Commissioner or the institutional employee(s)
				designated by the Superintendent or Director of that facility to screen
				six-part folders for evaluative information.
Six-part Folder
. The institutional
				case file of an inmate.