Levy County, Florida — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Levy County Detention Bureau (Levy County Jail)

Operated byLevy County Sheriff's Office
Jail address9150 NE 80th Avenue, Bronson, FL 32621
Capacity304 inmates maximum (sheriff's Detention Bureau page)
VisitsRemote (video) visits only
MedicalSheriff employs licensed medical staff; clinic open 10 hours a day, 7 days a week
Jail AdministratorCaptain Todd Horne, Detention Bureau Commander

Source: Levy County Sheriff's Office — Detention Bureau · checked 2026-09-28

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✓Beds and daily population
✓What it costs taxpayers
✗Deaths in custody — not published
✓PREA audits
✗Independent inspection — not published
✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
✗How to post bond — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Levy County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-28. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds304 maximum (sheriff's Detention Bureau page)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Bobby McCallum

Full name on siteRobert (Bobby) B. McCallum, Jr.
Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Detention Bureau operates the Levy County jail
First elected2012 (sheriff's own biography page)
How the office is filledElected, four-year term

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Levy County Sheriff's Office — Sheriff biography · checked 2026-09-28

The Judges

Florida's circuit and county judges are elected state judicial officers, not county officials. A judge sets the first conditions of release at first appearance, within 24 hours of arrest.

Who sets bail in Levy County

Circuit Court: Florida's Eighth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist and Union (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
County Court: the Levy County Court. County judges are elected countywide to six-year terms and hear misdemeanors.

Still needed

The county's bond schedule
Share of the jail population held pretrial
Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-28

The Board of County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. In most counties the sheriff runs it; in some, the county does.

What they controlThe sheriff's budget, including its separate line for corrections and detention: the sheriff submits it by June 1 and the board may amend, increase or reduce it (Fla. Stat. 30.49). The board also owns the jail building, and it decides by ordinance whether the sheriff or a county corrections department runs the jail (Fla. Stat. 951.061).
What they don'tDay-to-day operations where the sheriff runs the jail. The sheriff is separately elected, and can appeal the board's budget cuts to the Governor and Cabinet sitting as the Administration Commission. No state agency inspects the jail; peer inspectors from other sheriffs' offices do.
NoteFive members elected from five districts to four-year terms. Agendas on Municode; minutes on the Clerk's site (https://levyclerk.com/bocc1/, not opened).
The boardLevy County Board of County Commissioners →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

levyso.com confirmed as the Levy County, Florida sheriff (Bronson).
Sheriff's finance page states the FY2025-26 sheriff's budget of $23,385,297 (covers the Detention Bureau; no separate jail figure). The county's 2026 adopted budget book did not show a separate sheriff or jail line in what our reader could see.
Sheriff's detention page links an in-custody lookup on a JailTracker vendor portal (omsweb.public-safety-cloud.com ... LEVY_COUNTY_FL); the fetch tool refused it, so roster is not scored yes.
PREA page gives a zero-tolerance statement, reporting routes and the PREA coordinator; no audit reports posted.
Accreditation page says CFA-accredited; no inspection report posted.
No bond guidance, fee rates, deaths-in-custody record or contracts found on the sheriff's site.
What was tried: http://www.levyso.com (refused before the search; https://levyso.com works); JailTracker roster portal (refused).
State inspection/oversight: Florida requires every county jail to meet the Florida Model Jail Standards and to be inspected each year, but the inspectors come from other sheriffs' offices, not a state agency, and state law does not require the reports to be published.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Levy County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).

How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?

Your VOTE is POWERFUL.

The sheriff is elected. So are the county commissioners who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.

Names verified 2026-09-28 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered