Jail Enforcement View agreement →
- Signed by ICE: ICE Field Office: New Orleans
- Agreement signed
- June 15, 2017
- First seen in ICE data
- January 13, 2021
- Residential population
- 313,481FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 425FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 507FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 932FBI 2025
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
Was on the ballot on August 6, 2026.
Brent Gibson
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 Knox County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 59.0%
- 130,815
- Harris
- 39.4%
- 87,516
- Others
- 1.6%
- 3,533
Trump won the county by 19.5 points over Harris. 221,864 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 Knox 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
Contact information for this agency is not yet available.
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: TN0470000.
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: