Massachusetts, Suffolk County
Where Chelsea's records are kept. Chelsea has its own city government, police department, clerk's office and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Chelsea's own offices, along with State of Massachusetts offices; the Suffolk County offices are on our Suffolk County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
City of Chelsea, Massachusetts site, with 311 service, online services, permits and licenses, parking, city alerts and news, and links to the City Clerk, Inspectional Services, water billing and public records requests.
Open official site City of ChelseaPolice & jail
The Chelsea Police Department at 19 Park Street, with documents and forms, the Records Department, annual reports, online report filing, officer complaints, police detail requests and department news.
Open official site Chelsea Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The Chelsea Police Records Department keeps and releases department reports; the Chief of Police at 19 Park Street is Records Access Officer and takes requests in person, by phone, mail or email.
Open official site Chelsea Police Records DepartmentCity records
The Chelsea City Clerk keeps city records and vital statistics, issues marriage licenses, runs municipal, state and federal elections, collects local census data, maintains archives and serves as Parking Clerk.
Open official site Chelsea City ClerkCity records
Chelsea Inspectional Services at 500 Broadway, Room 201, monitors residential and commercial property improvements, building construction and restaurant food preparation, with permits through the online Permit Management System.
Open official site Chelsea Inspectional ServicesPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedCounty court
Massachusetts agency that runs the state's criminal records systems, including CORI access, firearms services and post-conviction victim notification, and takes public records and research requests.
Open official site Department of Criminal Justice Information ServicesPolice & jail
The Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board classifies sex offenders by risk and posts Level 3 offenders, plus Level 2 offenders classified after July 12, 2013, who live, work or study in the state.
Open official site Sex Offender Registry BoardPolice & jail
The Massachusetts Department of Correction points to VINELink, an outside service online or by phone, to find someone in its prisons by full name or commitment number.
Open official site Find Someone Housed in a Massachusetts PrisonVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
The Massachusetts Archives, under the Secretary of the Commonwealth in Boston, holds state vital records from 1841 to 1935, census copies, Port of Boston passenger lists and naturalization abstracts.
Open official site Massachusetts ArchivesEverything else, organized
16 more Chelsea sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Chelsea, a place of 40,787 people, is in Suffolk County, whose county seat is Boston. Deeds are recorded at the registry of deeds that serves Suffolk County, Chelsea's town clerk keeps copies of birth and death certificates, and court cases go through the Massachusetts Trial Court. Chelsea's own offices are in the cards above, and our Suffolk County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 1 mine site inside the city or town limits: 1 processing plant, which is not a working.
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area. No abandoned mine inventory is published; the survey's host does not answer this box, both urls are in the search index.
Massachusetts abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 30 investigations with a Chelsea address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $2,284,086 in back wages agreed for 414 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAL Construction Co., Inc | 2 | $1,300,000 | 60 |
| Boston Hides & Furs, Ltd | 1 | $412,500 | 14 |
| Herrera's Floors, LLC | 1 | $226,419 | 98 |
| Fifth Avenue Steak House, Inc | 1 | $84,146 | 37 |
| Snipped Fresh Prodcue, Inc. | 1 | $72,223 | 57 |
| The Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts (Chelsea) | 1 | $59,785 | 81 |
| Boston Concrete Forms, Inc. | 1 | $34,000 | 11 |
| Fifth Avenue Limousine Service, Inc. | 2 | $27,407 | 10 |
| Cupp & Cupp Corporation | 1 | $21,592 | 4 |
| Reinas Cleaning Service, Inc. | 1 | $16,399 | 5 |
| Lamco Environmental Systems, Inc. | 1 | $11,141 | 18 |
| Acapulco Mexican Restaurant, Inc. | 1 | $4,218 | 5 |
| Tito's Bakery, Inc. | 1 | $502 | 1 |
| ACS Development Corporation | 1 | $225 | 2 |
| Live Lobster Company, Inc. | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Square Cab Inc. of Chelsea | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Jetro Holdings | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| MacKay Construction Services, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Moran Foods | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| State Garden, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| American Resource Staffing Network, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| A & V Temps, Inc | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Tijuana Mexican Food, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Boston Tomato & Packaging LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Los Pinos Mexican Grill II, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Chelsea, by back wages agreed; 13 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Massachusetts wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Massachusetts is run by the Massachusetts Elections Division and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Chelsea.
Deeds for property in Chelsea are recorded by the registry of deeds that serves Suffolk County, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Suffolk County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Massachusetts come from the state vital records office, Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, and the town or city clerk can also issue copies. The state office's site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.