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downwardspiralstairs t1_j6kroox wrote

The registry is the police chief calls the Massachusetts department of mental health and asks if the person has ever been in a metal hospital in the state. If they have not been in an instate hospital then it won't show up.

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Maronita2020 t1_j6lrjih wrote

That is not exactly true. I know of an individual who was psychiatrically hospitalized at the Bridgewater State Hospital. She now has a CORI for the time she received treatment there although she had never committed a crime, but simply was for psychiatric treatment. In my opinion she shouldn't have a CORI since she never committed a crime, but it is there nonetheless.

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downwardspiralstairs t1_j6m31t2 wrote

They have it on their CORI because it was either a court ordered hold or they went to court to get released. Not everyone who goes into a mental hospital gets a CORI record, CORI stands for criminal offender records information so they had to be in court at some point to have criminal court records about it.

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Maronita2020 t1_j6mqx06 wrote

I know what CORI stands for. Commitments are NOT supposed to show up on CORI's even if ordered there by the courts (if not there for having committed a crime.)

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