# Sheriff Brott *Sheriff of Sherburne County, Minnesota; named in two at-issue records in the Sherburne County package.* Sheriff Brott is the [[sheriff]] of Sherburne County, Minnesota. The record shows that Brott joined the [[Sherburne County Sheriff's Office]] in 1996 and leaves it at the end of 2026.[^3] The Minnesota wiki's at-issue record names Brott, in official capacity, in two items of its Sherburne County package. One concerns the sheriff's public case for a detention contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The other concerns the combined tenure of the sheriff and the county attorney.[^1][^3] According to the at-issue record, Brott's public case for the ICE contract was put as a question: "I ask what the acceptable number is of convicted pedophiles, rapists, murderers, robbers and drug dealers who are in this country illegally and living in your neighborhood."[^1] The same record, drawing on detention data for the facility, states that more than half of the ICE detainees held in the same facility during the same period had no criminal conviction of any kind.[^2] The second item records that [[County Attorney Heaney]] joined the [[County Attorney's office]] in 1989 and left in 2025. Over the same years, Brott served in the sheriff's office from 1996. The record describes these as the two offices that arrest, charge, and hold in Sherburne County. It states that they were staffed by the same two people for a combined sixty-six years: 30 years for the sheriff and 36 for the [[county attorney]].[^3] ## Who The record identifies Brott only by office, as sheriff of Sherburne County.[^1][^3] It does not establish the sheriff's full name, party, electoral history, or the terms of the ICE contract. Those terms would include the contract's date, its dollar value, and the counts of detainees held.[^3] ## In the at-issue record - **The question and the composition** (AI-Sherburne-091, rank 91). The record places the sheriff's stated rationale for the ICE contract beside the facility's composition data. The rationale is framed around convicted persons living in residents' neighborhoods. The data show that more than half of ICE detainees held there in the same period had no criminal conviction.[^1][^2] - **Sixty-six years** (AI-Sherburne-096, rank 96). The record states that Brott served in the sheriff's office from 1996 to the end of 2026. It states that Heaney served in the County Attorney's office from 1989 to 2025. On those dates, the two offices were held by the same two people for a combined sixty-six years.[^3] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record AI-Sherburne-091 (Sherburne package, *Sherburne_Jail_Brief*) — the sheriff's quoted public case for the ICE contract. The record lists its source as hometownsource.com. The record's paired anchor is The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025), which does not itself name the sheriff. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record AI-Sherburne-091 (Sherburne package, *Sherburne_Jail_Brief*) — the statement that more than half of ICE detainees held in the facility in the same period had no criminal conviction. The record lists its source as detentionreports.com, as data. The record's paired anchor is the White House order above, which does not contain the facility data. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^3]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record AI-Sherburne-096 (Sherburne package, *Sherburne_Jail_Brief* · *Heaney_Brief*) — the record of the sheriff's 1996 start and end-of-2026 departure, Heaney's 1989–2025 service, and the combined sixty-six-year figure. The record lists its source as knsiradio.com, as news. The record's paired anchor is the White House order above, which does not contain these dates. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/