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Middlesex County, Massachusetts

First Issues Docket

Every dead end in the money trail becomes a numbered pursuit here. When a document is obtained and ingested, the issue gets stamped with the date and what it revealed. 1 of 3 complete.
#1
Ingest the Middlesex Sheriffs Office appropriation.

Pull the Sheriff line item (8910) from the Massachusetts state budget.

2026-08-19 — what this revealed: FY2026 enacted $79,416,165 (operations line 8910-0107 = $77,418,880), the 4th-largest of Massachusetts 14 sheriff offices. It is state money, not a county tax — the one real county-level budget Middlesex still has. Prior year FY2025 was $79,423,908, fully line-itemized.
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#2
Ingest the flagship city budgets.

Cambridge (FY2026, $978.6M) and Lowell (FY2025, $583.7M) are ingested and walkable line-by-line. The remaining 52 municipalities are indexed with their official budget links; more full ingests follow.

Open
#3
Registries of Deeds figures.

Recording-fee revenue and operating costs for the North (Lowell) and South (Cambridge) registries.

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