Massachusetts, Essex County
Where Peabody's records are kept. Peabody has its own city government, clerk's office, police department and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Peabody's own offices, along with State of Massachusetts offices; the Essex County offices are on our Essex County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The Peabody City Clerk at City Hall, 24 Lowell Street, posts election results and voting forms, handles permits, licenses and campaign finance filings, and opens indexes and records to genealogists.
Open official site Peabody City Clerk's OfficeCity records
Peabody's Records Access Officer for public records requests sits in the city Law Office, with phone contact and the City Hall address at 24 Lowell St., Peabody, Massachusetts.
Open official site Peabody Records Access OfficerPolice & jail
The Peabody Police Department serves Peabody, Massachusetts, with an anonymous web tip form, autism and Silver Alert registries, parking information, directions to the station and a citizens academy.
Open official site Peabody Police DepartmentCity records
The Peabody Police Records Division at 6 Allens Lane takes requests for department records on its FOIA request form, asking for as much detail as possible about the records sought.
Open official site Peabody Police Records Division FOIA RequestCity records
The Peabody Building Department enforces Massachusetts building codes and local ordinances, accepts permit applications only through its online system and schedules inspections by email or phone.
Open official site Peabody Building DepartmentPolice & 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 BoardFederal
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 WantedPolice & 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 PrisonState 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 LocatorProperty records
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 WebsiteProperty records
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 ArchivesCounty court
The court has locations in Boston, Worcester and Springfield and posts its calendar, notices of sale, video and phone hearing details, local rules and forms, with PACER for case files.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, District of MassachusettsEverything else, organized
17 more Peabody sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Useful local context without burying the official record links above.
Local profile
Peabody, a place of 54,481 people, is in Essex County, whose county seat is Salem. Deeds are recorded at the registry of deeds that serves Essex County, Peabody's city clerk keeps copies of birth and death certificates, and court cases go through the Massachusetts Trial Court. Peabody's own offices are in the cards above, and our Essex County page lists each county office.
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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 registration where Massachusetts offers it, polling places and the local election office for Peabody.
Deeds for property in Peabody are recorded by the registry of deeds that serves Essex County, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Essex 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.
Businesses that operate in Peabody register with the Massachusetts Corporations Division, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Peabody requires one, comes from the town or Essex County.
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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.