Warrant Service Signed December 12, 2025 View agreement →
- Signed by ICE: ICE Field Office: New Orleans
- Public affairs contact: Sheriff C.J. Ball, 111 Court Avenue, Newport, TN 37821 · (423) 623-6004
- Agreement signed
- December 12, 2025
- Residential population
- 31,060FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 54FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 51FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 105FBI 2025
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
Was on the ballot on August 6, 2026.
C.J. Ball
elected
Candidates: UT County Technical Assistance Service, Tennessee sheriffs directory: the sheriff in office after the Aug. 6, 2026 county general election (terms began Sept. 1) · archived copy
How Cocke County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 83.7%
- 13,105
- Harris
- 15.4%
- 2,415
- Others
- 0.9%
- 143
Trump won the county by 68.3 points over Harris. 15,663 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Tennessee county general election, Aug. 6, 2026; results certified by each county election commission
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Cocke County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
View agreement →Agreements on file
1 of 2 models on file
MOAs are not available for every agreement.
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
- Address
- 111 COURT AVE. NEWPORT, TN 37821
- Phone
- (423) 623-6004
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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- + Task Force Model
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- + Warrant Service Officer
Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: TN0150000.
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: