Massachusetts counties

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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.

[edit] 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 taxpayer-funded 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.

[edit] Counties without websites

As of late February 2009, 10 of Massachusetts 's 14 counties had no website.

[edit] Counties

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