INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

Section 16

Citation
Section 16 (i)
Parent Document
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 239 § 16
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)

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(i) A consumer reporting agency shall not disclose the existence of, or information regarding, an eviction record sealed under this section or use information contained in a sealed court record as a factor to determine any score or recommendation to be included in a consumer report unless the court record was available for inspection with the court within 30 days of the report date. A consumer reporting agency may include in a consumer report information found in publicly available court records; provided, however, that the consumer report shall include a person's full name, whether an eviction action was a fault eviction, a no-fault eviction or a lessor action and the outcome of any eviction action if such information is contained in the publicly-available court record. Information contained in a court record sealed under this section shall be removed from the consumer report or from the calculation of any score or recommendation to be included in a consumer report within 30 days of the sealing of the court record from which it is derived. Any consumer reporting agency that violates this subsection shall be liable to the person who is the subject of the consumer report in an amount equal to the sum of any actual damages sustained by the consumer as a result of the violation and the costs of the action, including reasonable attorney's fees. The attorney general shall enforce this subsection, and the remedies provided hereunder shall not be exclusive. Nothing in this subsection shall waive the rights or remedies of any person under any other law or regulation.