Editing Woburn, Massachusetts (section)

== County government ==
Though the official [[county seat]]s remains designated to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]] with a secondary northern junior-seat at [[Lowell, Massachusetts|Lowell]] ([[de jure]]), since 2008 Woburn plays host to a hand-full of [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Middlesex County]] law enforcement and court related entities: the Superior Court and District Attorney Office moved first to have their base of operations relocated from Cambridge.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/02/14/court_move_a_hassle_for_commuters/ |title=Court move a hassle for commuters |accessdate=July 25, 2009 |first=Eric |last=Moskowitz |date=February 14, 2008 |work=[[Boston Globe|The Boston Globe]] |pages= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=In a little more than a month, Middlesex Superior Court will open in Woburn after nearly four decades at the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in Cambridge. With it, the court will bring the roughly 500 people who pass through its doors each day – the clerical staff, lawyers, judges, jurors, plaintiffs, defendants, and others who use or work in the system.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/homepage/x135741754/Cambridges-Middlesex-Jail-courts-may-be-shuttered-for-good |title=Cambridge's Middlesex Jail, courts may be shuttered for good |accessdate=July 25, 2009 |first=Charlie |last=Breitrose |date=July 7, 2009 |work=Wicked Local News: Cambridge |pages= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=The courts moved out of the building to allow workers to remove asbestos. Superior Court moved to Woburn in March 2008, and in February, the Third District Court moved to Medford.}}</ref>  In 2020 the county's registrar of Probate & Family Court in Cambridge subsequently also moved their base of operations<ref>{{cite news |date=October 19, 2020  |title=Massachusetts to relocate a court from Cambridge to Woburn |url=https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/sun-advocate/2020/10/19/massachusetts-to-relocate-court-from-cambridge-to-woburn/42956421/ |url-status= |editor1-last=writer |editor1-first=Staff |department= |work=Sun Advocate |publisher=Wicked Local |publication-date=October 19, 2020 |arxiv= |asin= |bibcode= |doi= |doi-broken-date= |isbn= |issn= |jfm= |jstor= |lccn= |mr= |oclc= |ol= |osti= |pmc= |pmid= |rfc= |ssrn= |zbl= |id= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=November 2, 2024 |url-access= |quote= |postscript= |ref=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 5, 2020  |title=Probate & Family Court in Cambridge relocating to Woburn |url=https://www.masslawyersweekly.com/2020/11/05/pfct-in-cambridge-relocating-to-woburn/ |url-status= |format= |editor1-last=writer |editor1-first=Staff |department= |work= |publisher=Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly |publication-date=November 5, 2020 |arxiv= |asin= |bibcode= |doi= |doi-broken-date= |isbn= |issn= |jfm= |jstor= |lccn= |mr= |oclc= |ol= |osti= |pmc= |pmid= |rfc= |ssrn= |zbl= |id= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=November 2, 2024 |url-access= |postscript= |ref=}}</ref> and followed by the county Sheriff's office in 2022. The county's executive branch of government was abolished in 1997, and the county still exists as a geographical and political region. The employees of Middlesex County courts, jails, registries, and other county agencies now work directly for the state though with much of these offices transferred to Woburn, (only the Registry of Deeds remaining in Cambridge).