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Massachusetts doesn't run background checks through county courts. Criminal history goes through CORI, a state-run system with its own access rules, a written-policy trigger at 5 checks a year, and its own ban-the-box layer on top.
ComplianceHawaii required employers to wait until after a conditional job offer to ask about criminal history starting back in 1998, years ahead of most states. Its lookback rule also treats felonies and misdemeanors differently, though the exact cutoff years are worth confirming before you build a policy on them.
ComplianceRoughly a dozen states restrict how employers can use credit history in hiring, and New York just extended its rule statewide. Here's which states get cited most often, what the restrictions usually cover, and why you shouldn't treat any list, including this one, as final.