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Butler County Sheriff's Office

County · Butler County · KY

#1382 of 2306 agencies by officer count

Agreement signed
September 9, 2025
First seen in ICE data
October 13, 2025
Residential population
10,089FBI 2025
Sworn officers
8FBI 2025
Civilian staff
2FBI 2025
Total personnel
10FBI 2025
Memorandum of Agreement
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Elections

How Butler County voted for president in 2024

Trump
82.5%
4,905
Harris
16.2%
965
Others
1.2%
73

Trump won the county by 66.3 points over Harris. 5,943 votes cast.

Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Kentucky Secretary of State, 2026 county candidate filings (a sheriff filing in every roster county)

Memorandum of Agreement

The full agreement between Butler County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.

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Agreements on file

MOAs are not available for every agreement.

Jail Enforcement Signed September 5, 2025 View agreement →

  • Signed by Butler County Sheriff's Office: Scottie Ward
  • Signed by ICE: Madison Sheahan, Deputy Director; ICE Field Office: Chicago
  • Public affairs contact: Sheriff Scottie Ward, 110 N. Main St, Morgantown, KY 42261 · 270-526-3676

Task Force Signed September 9, 2025 View agreement →

  • Signed by Butler County Sheriff's Office: Scottie Ward
  • Signed by ICE: Madison Sheahan, Deputy Director
  • Public affairs contact: Sheriff Scottie Ward, 110 N. Main St, Morgantown, KY 42261 · 270-526-3676

Warrant Service Signed September 9, 2025 View agreement →

  • Signed by ICE: Madison Sheahan, Deputy Director; ICE Field Office: Chicago
  • Public affairs contact: Sheriff Scottie Ward, 110 N. Main St, Morgantown, KY 42261 · 270-526-3676

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.

    • − Warrant Service Officer
    • − Jail Enforcement Model
  1. First seen in ICE data · October 13, 2025

    • + Task Force Model
    • + Warrant Service Officer
  2. First seen in ICE data · October 13, 2025

    • + Jail Enforcement Model

Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: KY0160000.

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:

287(g) Watch — a public-interest journalism project. Records, corrections, and tips welcome. Data is from public records and may contain errors or omissions.

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