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- Signed by ICE: ICE Field Office: Fort Snelling, MN
- Public affairs contact: Public Affairs Officer
- Agreement signed
- June 9, 2020
- First seen in ICE data
- January 13, 2021
- Residential population
- 7,093FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 18FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 2FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 20FBI 2025
- Population policed
- 20,083
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Operating budget
- $3,850,328
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Memorandum of Agreement
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Elections
Sheriff
On the ballot on November 3, 2026.
Brian Fernau
Republican nominee
Party nominees from the primary results. The county has not published its November ballot, so other candidates may be missing.
Candidates: Dakota County, 2026 Primary official results: the Republican nominee (no general-election notice posted online) · archived copy
How Dakota County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 64.3%
- 3,934
- Harris
- 34.5%
- 2,109
- Others
- 1.3%
- 77
Trump won the county by 29.8 points over Harris. 6,120 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-520 (sheriffs elected in 1990 and every four years after, so 2026)
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Dakota County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
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MOAs are not available for every agreement.
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
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: NB0220000.
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: