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Howard County Sheriff's Office

County · Howard County · NE

#1459 of 2280 agencies by officer count

Agreement signed
July 29, 2026
First seen in ICE data
August 14, 2026
Residential population
4,153FBI 2025
Sworn officers
7FBI 2025
Civilian staff
7FBI 2025
Total personnel
14FBI 2025

Elections

Sheriff

On the ballot on November 3, 2026.

  • Michael Hoff

    Republican nominee

Party nominees from the primary results. The county has not published its November ballot, so other candidates may be missing.

Candidates: Howard County, 2026 Primary official results: the Republican nominee (no general-election notice posted online) · archived copy

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How Howard County voted for president in 2024

Trump
80.8%
2,868
Harris
18.1%
642
Others
1.1%
40

Trump won the county by 62.7 points over Harris. 3,550 votes cast.

Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-520 (sheriffs elected in 1990 and every four years after, so 2026)

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.

    • + Task Force Model

Data last updated October 13, 2026. ORI: NB0470000.

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:

287(g) Watch — a public-interest journalism project. Records, corrections, and tips welcome. Data is from public records and may contain errors or omissions.

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