- Agreement signed
- October 9, 2026
- Residential population
- 51,812FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 100FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 41FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 141FBI 2025
Elections
Sheriff
On the ballot on November 3, 2026.
Donald Earl Edwards
Democrat
Jimmy Thornton
Republican
Candidates: N.C. State Board of Elections, 2026 candidate list · archived copy
How Sampson County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 64.5%
- 18,178
- Harris
- 34.7%
- 9,797
- Others
- 0.8%
- 226
Trump won the county by 29.7 points over Harris. 28,201 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · N.C. State Board of Elections, 2026 candidate list (a sheriff contest in all 100 counties on Nov. 3)
Contact
- Address
- 112 Fontana Street Clinton
- Phone
- (910) 592-4141
- Website
- http://www.sampsonsheriff.com/
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: NC0820000.
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: