Warrant Service Signed March 10, 2025 View agreement →
Cherokee County Sheriff's Office
County · Cherokee County · NC
#651 of 2306 agencies by officer count
- Agreement signed
- March 10, 2025
- Residential population
- 27,249FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 33FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 27FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 60FBI 2025
- Population policed
- 28,383
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Operating budget
- $6,352,443
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
On the ballot on November 3, 2026.
Chris Wood
Republican unopposed
Candidates: N.C. State Board of Elections, 2026 candidate list · archived copy
How Cherokee County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 77.9%
- 13,883
- Harris
- 20.7%
- 3,686
- Others
- 1.4%
- 255
Trump won the county by 57.2 points over Harris. 17,824 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · N.C. State Board of Elections, 2026 candidate list (a sheriff contest in all 100 counties on Nov. 3)
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Cherokee County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
- Address
- 577 Regal Street Murphy
- Phone
- (828) 837-2589
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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- + Warrant Service Officer
Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: NC0200000.
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: