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Residents press Sumner County for more transparency on 287(g) data
Summary
Several residents urged Sumner County commissioners to require the sheriff to include detailed reporting on the county’s 287(g) immigration partnership after a Tennessee DA report showed higher immigrant-arrest figures in Sumner than in Shelby County; the sheriff said 287(g) applies only after arrests and booking.
Several residents used the commission’s public-comment period to demand clearer reporting about Sumner County’s participation in the 287(g) immigration program and to press for numbers and explanations in future sheriff’s reports.
Mandy Cook of Hendersonville asked the commission to “urge the sheriff to include a report on our 287(g) agreement during his next sheriff’s report,” saying the public needs to know whether the county is getting a cost benefit or becoming dependent on related funds. “We are seeing really alarming numbers,” she said, and requested that future sheriff’s reports include the program’s costs and impacts.
Trey of Gallatin cited the Tennessee District Attorney General’s 2025 immigration-crime report and said it lists 273 immigrant arrests in Shelby County versus 698 in…
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