Office of the Sheriff

Sheriff
Richard K. Jones 705 Hanover St.
Hamilton, Ohio 45011

Hamilton 513.785.1000
Chief Deputy Middletown 513.424.2456
Anthony E. Dwyer www.butlersheriff.org
Butler County, Ohio
For Immediate Release….. May 26, 2021

SHERIFF ENDS RELATIONSHIP WITH IMMIGRATION AND

CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE)

Since approximately 2003 the Butler County Sheriff’s Office has been
under the contract with the Department of Homeland Security, Bureau
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house their immigrants
while they are awaiting immigration hearings.

Sheriff Jones announces today that he has notified Immigration and

Customs Enforcement (ICE) that effective immediately he will not be
accepting any ICE detainees at the Butler County Jail and will be
terminating the contract to house them in the future.

“We operate an efficient correctional facility and federal officials

continue to add unreasonable and cost prohibitive mandates to hold
these illegal immigrants. With the crisis at the border getting worse, it
concerns me that the feds will ship detainees to my facility, then
release them to the streets of my community under some technicality.
It’s better to just end this arrangement now, than to let that happen.
Unlike this current administration, I’m still a firm believer that our
government should strictly enforce the immigration laws and I will
continue to promote that stance at every opportunity.

Prepared by: Sgt. Kim Peters

513-785-1018
cc: Administration, dispatch