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County official clarifies Putnam County signed up for 287(g) jail model, not community task-force
Summary
After a commissioner thanked the sheriff for signing the county up with ICE, an official clarified that Putnam County signed up for the 287(g) jail model (screening people arrested and processed at the jail), not the task-force model that would seek individuals in the community.
During announcements, a commissioner thanked Sheriff Eddie Farris for his leadership in signing Putnam County "to work with the joint ICE task force." An official responded that the public reporting had been inaccurate and clarified the county's participation: the county signed up for the 287(g) jail model, which enables immigration-status checks for individuals who enter the county jail booking process rather than a proactive community task-force that seeks people in the community.
The official said the county's approach is different from a task-force model and that Greene and Knox counties had used similar jail-model arrangements previously; the official characterized Putnam County as among the earlier counties in the region to adopt that model. The official framed the program as an informational change rather than a new enforcement operation in the community: "So it's it's a little different than what you said. It's really not the task force, the jail model."
Why it matters: the clarification informs the public about the scope of county cooperation with federal immigration-screening programs and distinguishes jail-based screening from proactive community enforcement models.
