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Criminal Record Law
Juvenile criminal records may be sealed 3 years after conviction, if an individual has not been convicted of any criminal offense in the interim. A person with a sealed record may answer "no record" to any question on an employment application concerning his sealed record. Massachusetts law also forbids employers to ask about juvenile records, misdemeanors more than five years old if the applicant has no convictions in the interim, a first conviction for certain minor offenses, and any arrests which did not lead to conviction.