Task Force Signed July 29, 2025 View agreement →
- Public affairs contact: James Begley · 434-946-9381 · jebegley@amherstsheriff.org
- Agreement signed
- July 29, 2025
- Residential population
- 29,686FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 48FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 5FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 53FBI 2025
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
No regularly scheduled sheriff election in 2026. Wrong? Let us know
How Amherst County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 67.9%
- 11,742
- Harris
- 31.4%
- 5,429
- Others
- 0.8%
- 132
Trump won the county by 36.5 points over Harris. 17,303 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Va. Code § 24.2-217 (sheriffs elected in November 1995 and every four years, so 2027); Nov. 3, 2026 specials per the Department of Elections list (rev. 8/21/26)
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Amherst County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
Contact information for this agency is not yet available.
Agreement History
Dated by when each agreement was signed; where ICE's public data lagged more than two weeks behind, the first-seen date is noted too. Changes we can't tie to a signed document are dated by when they were detected.
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Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: VA0050000.
Dive deeper
The 287(g) participation data doesn't tell us anything about what happened after the agreement was signed. To learn more, the public will need to ask or formally request information. MuckRock is organizing public records requests about immigration enforcement nationwide: