BLOUNT COUNTY, ALABAMA · ICE & PUBLIC RECORDS
Blount County, Alabama
Blount County’s Signed ICE Agreement Sets Supervision, Cost and Complaint Rules
The signed agreement adds detail beyond ICE’s participation list. It requires trained, individually authorized personnel, assigns operating costs and establishes a public complaint process.
Sources reviewed
A signed record behind the county’s ICE partnership
Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon signed the county’s task-force-model immigration agreement on January 16, 2026, and ICE Deputy Director Charles Wall signed on January 26, according to the 14-page agreement published by ICE. The agreement says it takes effect when both parties have signed.
WorthFighting.org retrieved and reviewed that document on October 19. Our earlier report on ICE’s participation list could verify the Alabama partnership but could not read the signed agreement. This follow-up supplies those terms; it does not describe a newly signed partnership or a newly reported enforcement operation.
Training and ICE supervision come before delegated authority
Sections IV, VII and IX require nomination, training, testing, certification and individual authorization before local personnel exercise delegated immigration functions. Candidates must be U.S. citizens with at least two years of law-enforcement-agency experience. The agreement does not give every county deputy immigration-officer authority merely because the sheriff signed it.
Section V lists functions including immigration questioning, specified arrests, processing and detainers, subject to the agreement and the cited legal authorities. Section XI places those immigration duties under ICE direction or supervision; field personnel must contact an ICE supervisor when using that authority or as soon as practicable afterward. The sheriff’s office retains supervision over other employment duties. Read the authority and supervision provisions.
Local cost obligations and federal reimbursement are separate
Section X assigns salaries, benefits, local transportation and operating materials to the local agency. ICE supplies instructors and training materials and covers authorized travel costs associated with training. The agreement explicitly says that whether the agency receives a federal grant or other reimbursement does not change its terms.
The document does not establish whether Blount County applied for or received reimbursement. Award records, payment receipts and expenditure totals would be needed to calculate the local fiscal effect. The county’s Financial Management page identifies the commission office as responsible for the county budget and finances; it does not supply a 287(g) payment total.
The agreement includes a public complaint route
Appendix B accepts complaints from the public and other sources. It lists ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility at 1-833-4ICE-OPR and ICEOPRintake@ice.dhs.gov, as well as the local agency’s internal-affairs function or a participating officer’s supervisor. These are the routes printed in the signed document.
Section XVI requires compliance with applicable federal civil-rights laws and an opportunity for people with limited English proficiency to request an interpreter. Describing those provisions does not establish whether a complaint has been filed locally or whether any violation occurred. Read the complaint appendix.
What the agreement cannot establish
The agreement sets responsibilities; it does not provide a current roster of certified Blount deputies, local arrest or removal totals, or reimbursement receipts. Section XII requires the agency to maintain program data and provide it when ICE requests it. Those operational records would be necessary for a separate account of results.
ICE’s 287(g) program page supplies participation information and model descriptions. This report concerns Blount County, Alabama. Similarly named Tennessee agencies and national program totals are not evidence of activity in this county.
Sources and reporting
Document-based reporting from ICE’s signed agreement, its program page and the county’s Financial Management page, reviewed October 19, 2026. We visually checked the signature page. The agreement was retrieved after our earlier roster report, whose evidence limit remains part of that report’s history. We did not interview officials, verify a local enforcement incident, obtain personnel certifications or establish a local payment or spending total. Contractual cost allocation is not evidence of a reimbursement award.
- ICE: signed Blount County, Alabama task-force-model agreementSheriff signed January 16, 2026; ICE signed January 26, 2026; reviewed October 19, 2026
- Blount County Commission: Financial ManagementUndated page; reviewed October 19, 2026
- ICE: 287(g) program and participating agenciesPage updated October 16, 2026; reviewed October 19, 2026