Task Force Signed February 18, 2026 View agreement →
- Public affairs contact: Delmer Hall, Chief Deputy
- Agreement signed
- February 18, 2026
- Residential population
- 17,950FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 14FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 2FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 16FBI 2025
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
On the ballot on November 3, 2026.
Matt Sparks
Democrat unopposed
Candidates: Kentucky Secretary of State, 2026 county candidate filings (Excel export; no contested primary for this office) · archived copy
How Rowan County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 63.0%
- 6,224
- Harris
- 35.3%
- 3,484
- Others
- 1.7%
- 165
Trump won the county by 27.8 points over Harris. 9,873 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Kentucky Secretary of State, 2026 county candidate filings (a sheriff filing in every roster county)
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Rowan County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
- Website
- http://www.rowansheriff.org
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: KY1030000.
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: