{"id":1464014,"date":"2025-12-10T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1464014"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:49:38","slug":"cherokee-county-joins-ices-287g-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1464014","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee County joins ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1273649\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-177x175.jpg 177w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-353x350.jpg 353w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u2014 Cherokee County has officially joined ICE\u2019s 287(g) program under the Task Force Model. According to our news partner KETK, Sheriff Brent Dickson clarified that this decision is not aimed at conducting immigration sweeps. Dickson emphasized that his office did not choose to participate for \u201cstrictly immigration purposes,\u201d saying that the agreement is intended as another tool to combat criminal enterprises operating in Cherokee County. The task force is expected to be implemented by the start of the new year, following Tuesday\u2019s official signing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u2014 Cherokee County has officially joined ICE\u2019s 287(g) program under the Task Force Model. According to our news partner KETK, Sheriff Brent Dickson clarified that this decision is not aimed at conducting immigration sweeps. Dickson emphasized that his office did not choose to participate for \u201cstrictly immigration purposes,\u201d saying that the agreement is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1464014\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cherokee County joins ICE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1464057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 05:04:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1464014"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464459,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464014\/revisions\/1464459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1464057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1464014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1464014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1464014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}