Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in Worcester County, has about 42,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Massachusetts the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of Courts; the statewide criminal history kept by the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Fitchburg is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
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Criminal Cases in the Worcester County Superior Court
In Massachusetts the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Fitchburg are heard by the Worcester County Superior Court, which hears felonies and civil cases over $50,000; the District Court and Boston Municipal Court take misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and civil cases up to $50,000, and the file of each case is kept by the Clerk of Courts.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at mass.gov/locations/worcester-district-court (page title: Worcester District Court), phone (508) 831-2010, 225 Main St., Worcester, MA 01608, Monday - Friday: 8:30 am-4:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Statewide, masscourts.org is the Massachusetts Trial Court's free online case search.
The Massachusetts Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Massachusetts is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: open access iCORI lets anyone request limited conviction information by name, for $25 a search, through the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it. The search is on the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services site.
To see your own record, the route is a personal CORI request, free once a year online. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at mass.gov/massachusetts-criminal-offender-record-information-cori.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Fitchburg
The About - Worcester County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Fitchburg (filed by the FBI as Fitchburg Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Fitchburg: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places nine campus police departments, one state agency and one state police unit in Worcester County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the 59 agencies in Worcester County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 13,481 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Fitchburg arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Fitchburg in 2025
The agency that reports for Fitchburg had 217 violent and 582 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The District Attorney for Worcester County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Worcester County become charges and files them in the Worcester County Superior Court or the District Court and Boston Municipal Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at worcesterda.com/contact (page title: Contact | - The Office of the Worcester County District Attorney), phone (508) 755-8601, 225 Main St., G-301 Worcester, MA 01608, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Fitchburg
Registered sex offenders living in Fitchburg are listed on the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry, run by the Sex Offender Registry Board at mass.gov/information-about-sex-offenders. Level 2 and Level 3 offenders are listed online; Level 1 offenders are not.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Worcester County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Massachusetts Public Records Law a county office must answer a request within 10 business days, and it may charge staff time after the first four hours for towns and two for the state, plus copying. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at worcesterma.gov/public-records-requests (page title: Public Records Requests | City of Worcester).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Fitchburg?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services: open access iCORI lets anyone request limited conviction information by name, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Massachusetts Public Records Law.
Can I search Fitchburg criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at mass.gov/locations/worcester-district-court (page title: Worcester District Court). Statewide, masscourts.org is the Massachusetts Trial Court's free online case search.
How do I get my own Massachusetts criminal history?
Through a personal CORI request, free once a year online.
Who prosecutes crimes in Fitchburg?
The District Attorney, reached at (508) 755-8601, which files its cases in the Worcester County Superior Court or the District Court and Boston Municipal Court.
Is this the official Fitchburg website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.