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287(g) Program

Virginia

28 agencies 10% of local law enforcement agencies 5 Warrant Service 1 Jail Enforcement 24 Task Force 1.1M covered

As of July 9, 2026

Agency Locations

How participation has grown

Active 287(g) agreements by model, since Dec 2024.

30 agreements.

01020Dec ’24May ’25Sep ’25Feb ’26Jun ’26WSO 5JEM 1TFM 24

Experimental (#162). Each line counts active agency–model agreements, so an agency with two models counts once per model. Changes are dated by when they appear in ICE's published list; the Dec 2024 level carries everything signed before then, and the archive has no snapshots between mid-Dec 2024 and early Mar 2025, so the lines run flat there.

News coverage of ICE's 287(g) program in Virginia

Updated July 7, 2026

Virginia's approach to 287(g) reversed course sharply in early 2026, when new Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger ordered state law-enforcement agencies out of their ICE agreements—undoing a February 2025 directive from former Governor Glenn Youngkin that had pushed state cooperation. ICE now lists 28 participating agencies in Virginia, most of them local sheriff's offices whose contracts remain in force, leaving the state's posture split between a governor pulling back and counties that continue to work with ICE.

Virginia Agencies

28 agencies

ModelsMOA
Alleghany County Sheriff's Office

Alleghany County

County2025
Amherst County Sheriff's Office

Amherst County

County2025
Appomattox County Sheriff's Office

Appomattox County

County2025
Bedford County Sheriff's Office

Bedford County

County2025
Buchanan County Sheriff's Office

Buchanan County

County2025
Buckingham County Sheriff's Office

Buckingham County

County2025
Campbell County Sheriff's Office

Campbell County

County2025
Craig County Sheriff's Office

Craig County

County2025
Franklin County Sheriff's Office

Franklin County

County2025
Frederick County Sheriff's Office

Frederick County

County2025
Gordonsville Department of Public Safety

Orange County

County2026
Grayson County Sheriff's Office

Grayson County

County2025
Greene County Sheriff's Office

Greene County

County2025
Hopewell County Sheriff's Office

Hopewell County

County2025
Loudoun County Sheriff's Office

Loudoun County

County2025
Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office

Mecklenburg County

County2025
Page County Sheriff's Office

Page County

County2026
Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Office

Pittsylvania County

County2025
Rappahannock, Shenandoah, Warren Regional Jail Authority

#NA

County2025
Richmond County Sheriff's Office

Richmond County

County2025
Scott County Sheriff's Office

Scott County

County2025
Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office

Shenandoah County

County2025
Shenandoah Police Department

Page County

Municipality2026
Smyth County Sheriff's Office

Smyth County

County2025
Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority County2025
Tazewell County Sheriff's Office

Tazewell County

County2025
Washington County Sheriff's Office

Washington County

County2025
Wise County Sheriff's Office

Wise County

County2025

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