Massachusetts consists of 14 counties. Massachusetts has abolished seven of its fourteen county governments, leaving five counties with county-level local government and two, Nantucket County and Suffolk County, with combined county/city government.
County website evaluations
- Main article: Evaluation of Massachusetts county websites
- 0 Massachusetts counties post their current budgets online.
- 3 counties include information on their websites about public government meetings.
- 0 counties include information about the elected officials.
- All 4 of them include information about the county's administrative officials.
- 1 county gives information about permits and zoning in the county.
- 0 of the counties put information on their websites about audits that the county government has had performed.
- 0 counties give information about their contracts with county vendors.
- 0 county websites disclose whether or not they belong to any government sector lobbying associations.
- 0 counties provide information on how to request public records using the Massachusetts Public Records Act.
- 1 county website provides some information about county taxes.
Counties without websites
As of late February 2009, 10 of Massachusetts 's 14 counties had no website.
Counties
- Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Berkshire County, Massachusetts
- Bristol County, Massachusetts
- Dukes County, Massachusetts
- Essex County, Massachusetts
- Franklin County, Massachusetts
- Hampden County, Massachusetts
- Hampshire County, Massachusetts
- Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Nantucket County, Massachusetts
- Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- Suffolk County, Massachusetts
- Worcester County, Massachusetts
