Jail Enforcement Signed March 13, 2025 View agreement →
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office
County · Hamilton County · TN
#131 of 2306 agencies by officer count
- Agreement signed
- March 17, 2025
- Residential population
- 127,498FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 188FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 264FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 452FBI 2025
- Population policed
- 364,286
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Operating budget
- $55,509,000
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
Was on the ballot on August 6, 2026.
Austin Garrett
Republican elected
Candidates: Hamilton County Election Commission, Aug. 6, 2026 official results (87,934 votes, unopposed) · archived copy
How Hamilton County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 55.7%
- 97,195
- Harris
- 42.7%
- 74,437
- Others
- 1.6%
- 2,806
Trump won the county by 13.0 points over Harris. 174,438 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 Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
- Address
- 600 MARKET ST CHATTANOOGA, TN 37402
- Phone
- (423) 209-7000
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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- + Jail Enforcement Model
Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: TN0330000.
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: