Jail Enforcement Signed March 3, 2026 View agreement →
- Signed by ICE: ICE Field Office: New Orleans
- Public affairs contact: Sheriff Joedy Pennington, 300 Access Road / PO Box 395 · 601-635-4401 · jpennington@newtoncountysheriffms.gov
Newton County Sheriff's Department
County · Newton County · MS
#1055 of 2306 agencies by officer count
- Agreement signed
- February 10, 2026
- Residential population
- 14,750FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 16FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 8FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 24FBI 2025
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
No regularly scheduled sheriff election in 2026. Wrong? Let us know
How Newton County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 71.2%
- 6,641
- Harris
- 27.9%
- 2,603
- Others
- 0.8%
- 79
Trump won the county by 43.3 points over Harris. 9,323 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Newton County Sheriff's Department and ICE is available below.
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MOAs are not available for every agreement.
Task Force Signed February 10, 2026 View agreement →
- Public affairs contact: Joedy Pennington, 300 Access Road Decatur MS 39327 · ngton@newtoncountysheriffms.gov
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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- − Jail Enforcement Model
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- + Task Force Model
Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: MS0510000.
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: