Jail Enforcement Signed February 26, 2025 View agreement →
- Signed by ICE: Caleb Vitello, Acting Director
- Public affairs contact: Major Steve Morris, 2269 County Camp Road, Appling, GA 30802
Columbia County Sheriff's Office
County · Columbia County · GA
#82 of 2306 agencies by officer count
- Agreement signed
- February 26, 2025
- Residential population
- 147,725FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 283FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 64FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 347FBI 2025
- Population policed
- 154,291
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Operating budget
- $27,391,759
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
No regularly scheduled sheriff election in 2026. Wrong? Let us know
How Columbia County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 62.4%
- 53,657
- Harris
- 36.8%
- 31,624
- Others
- 0.7%
- 639
Trump won the county by 25.6 points over Harris. 85,920 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · O.C.G.A. § 15-16-1 (sheriffs serve the same four-year term as superior court clerks; last elected Nov. 2024, next in 2028; unofficial copy of the code)
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Columbia County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
- Address
- PO Box 310, Appling, GA 30802-0310
- Phone
- 706-541-1043
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: GA0360000.
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: