Source: Massachusetts FY2026 Enacted Budget — Middlesex Sheriff (line 8910)
Source locator: Not yet pinned — the transcription predates storing the source PDF. Pinning every number to its page or locator is part of Docket #7.
Layer: appropriation — Layer one: what Commonwealth of Massachusetts (state-funded) authorized to be spent. What was actually spent is layer two (audit and treasurer reports); which vendor got which check is layer three (check register).
Checked: Counted ✓ — this line is part of Middlesex Sheriff's Office's verified total. Full report.
Share: 3% of Middlesex Sheriff's Office ($79,416,165)
Retrieved: 2026-08-19

Note on this line

The FY2026 total minus the operations line — the Mental Health Stabilization Unit (8910-1101), Community Programs retained revenue (8910-0450), and Prison Industries retained revenue (8910-1100). In FY2025 these were $1,822,285, $100,000, and $75,000; shown here as their FY2026 combined total pending the line-by-line FY2026 split.

how this line is traced

Reconstructed — and the trail stops here. To see who this money actually reached, someone has to pull records, minutes, or a check register. It often stays dark.

There's another way. If the county paid this line from a transparent, line-attributed account, it would publish its own itemized transactions — payee, amount, date — the moment each payment cleared. No request required; the dead end becomes a list. That's the idea behind receipts by rails, filed as a solution to the transparency question — read it and weigh in.