Houston County Sheriff's Office
County · Houston County · TN
#1077 of 2280 agencies by officer count
- Agreement signed
- September 11, 2026
- Residential population
- 7,390FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 15FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 2FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 17FBI 2025
Elections
Sheriff
Was on the ballot on August 6, 2026.
Joe Thomas
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 Houston County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 78.5%
- 2,989
- Harris
- 20.3%
- 773
- Others
- 1.3%
- 48
Trump won the county by 58.2 points over Harris. 3,810 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Tennessee county general election, Aug. 6, 2026; results certified by each county election commission
Contact
- Address
- 3330 STATE HIGHWAY 149 ERIN, TN 37061
- Phone
- (931) 289-4614
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 13, 2026. ORI: TN0420000.
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: