Area officials late this week were still seeking information about a multi-million-dollar government contract with an Alaska-based corporation designating Adams, Tennessee, as the location of a national immigration enforcement call center.
A summary document posted on the federal government’s contract website shows it has entered into a contract of up to $63 million with a subsidiary of Alaska Native corporation Koniag to run a round-the-clock call center to provide real-time information to police and sheriffs across the nation who have entered into cooperative agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Officials in Robertson and Montgomery counties — the rural town of about 600 people straddles both jurisdictions — said they had received no information about the plans to establish a federal call center in the rural community.
“We have our folks looking into it,” Montgomery County Mayor Wes Golden wrote in a Thursday email. Golden said he had learned about the existence of the contract from a media report Wednesday.
Chris Traughber, assessor of property for Robertson County, said Thursday there had been “lots of inquiries here but no new information.” Traughber said he had checked with the county’s Planning Department, which routinely assesses infrastructure capacity and property uses. Officials there hadn’t heard anything either, he said.