BOSTON/State House - Advocates from serveral organizations rallied in front of the State House on Thursday to push for reforming the Criminal Offender Record Information system. The event was sponsored by the Commonwealth CORI Coalition, a statewide coalition of over 110 organizations that are dedicated to passing comprehensive CORI reform.

About 80 people gathered in front of the State House steps, including representatives from organizations such as the Boston Workers Alliance and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

Chelsea, Mass. - Community members and activists gathered in Bellingham Square on Saturday to rally Chelsea residents around Criminal Offender Record Information reform. About 25 participants held signs and distributed fliers (D-Chelsea) calling on Chelsea residents to call Rep. Eugene O’Flaherty to support An Act to Reform CORI (H. 3523) in the Mass. House of Representatives.

BOSTON/State House - After successfully pushing a reform bill through the Mass. Senate last year, over 125 advocates of changes to the state Criminal Offender Record Information system held a rally in State House Hearing Room B-2 Wednesday before lobbying key legislators that can help move the House version of the bill towards passage this year. The event was organized by the Commonwealth CORI Coalition - which represents over 90 organizations in support of CORI reform.

BOSTON/State House - Activists and supporters of Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) reform testified to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary at the Statehouse Monday. Young supporters marched that morning from Reggie Lewis Track to the State house, where they held a rally and speak-out outside the building.

BOSTON/State House - Mayor Thomas Menino joined other state officials Tuesday to voice support for CORI reform at a press conference held by Commonwealth CORI Coalition (CCC), a statewide coalition of more than 60 community organizations, labor unions and faith-based groups. CCC contends that Massachusetts' CORI system is broken and is promoting a CORI reform bill that they say would reduce criminal recidivism and joblessness.

BOSTON/Beacon Hill - The hopes of advocates for the passage of a criminal justice bill (House Bill 5004 "An Act to Improve Certain Criminal Justice Matters") that would have reformed the controversial Criminal Records Information System were dashed this week when the House Ways and Means Committee failed to report the bill out favorably for a vote on the House floor.

BOSTON/Beacon Hill - Over 100 people from several area community organizations and unions gathered at the State House Steps on Wednesday to rally in support of House Bill 5004 "An Act to Improve Certain Criminal Justice Matters" (the CORI Reform Bill) which would reform the Criminal Offender Records Information system to make it easier for former criminals to get jobs in Massachusetts.

BOSTON/Beacon Hill - After marching for 5 days from Worcester to Boston for reform of the Criminal Offender Record Inquiry system in Massachusetts, a group of over a dozen ex-prisoners and supporters

A video by students seeking reform of the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system in Massachusetts.

On Tuesday, March 18, the Judiciary Committee Chaired by Rep. Eugene O'Flaherty and Sen. Robert Creedon held a Public Hearing on Deval Patrick's CORI Reform Bill #4476.