Code of Massachusetts Regulations
803 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SERVICES
Title 803 CMR 2.00 - Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI)
Section 2.15 - Destruction of CORI and CORI Acknowledgment Forms

(1) Hard copies of CORI and CORI Acknowledgment Forms shall be destroyed by shredding or burning.

(2) Electronic copies of CORI and CORI Acknowledgment Forms shall be destroyed by deleting them from the device on which they are stored and from any system used to back up the information and by degaussing the device or overwriting the files with 1s and 0s multiple times.

(3) CORI and CORI Acknowledgment Forms shall be appropriately destroyed by the electronic or mechanical means described above before disposing of, or repurposing, a computer or other device used to store CORI.