The Detention Center
Floyd County Jail
- Operated byFloyd County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address2526 New Calhoun Hwy, Rome, GA (per sheriff FAQ)
- Rated capacity776 beds; 256,000 sq ft
- Average daily population600 (2020, as stated on the page)
- Year built1982; renovated 1996
- OwnershipDescribed as the largest building owned by Floyd County Government
- Who it servesFloyd County, City of Rome and Cave Spring; pre-trial, county-sentenced and state-sentenced inmates
- Infrastructure fundingSPLOST funds via the Jail Infrastructure Restoration Project (JIRP)
Source: Floyd County Sheriff's Office — Jail | Detention · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1982
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found (SPLOST funds used for ongoing infrastructure restoration)
- Beds776
Since then
- Renovated 1996
The Sheriff
Sheriff Dave Roberson
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office lists a Jail | Detention division and operates the Floyd County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- BackgroundBegan at the Sheriff's Office in January 1995 as a jail officer (per Meet the Sheriff page)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Floyd County Sheriff's Office — Meet the Sheriff · checked 2026-09-29
The Judges
Georgia's superior court judges are elected state judges who hear felony cases. For most charges a county magistrate sets bail soon after arrest; for the most serious felonies only a superior court judge can.
Who sets bail in Floyd County
- Superior Court: the Rome Judicial Circuit, which serves Floyd County alone. Superior court judges are elected circuit-wide in nonpartisan elections to four-year terms and hear felony cases; for the most serious felonies only a superior court judge can set bail.
- Magistrate Court: the Floyd County Magistrate Court. For most charges a magistrate sets bail soon after arrest.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-29
The Board of Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe county budget that funds the sheriff's office and the jail, and the jail building itself. Some small counties have a sole commissioner; consolidated governments such as Athens-Clarke, Augusta-Richmond, Columbus and Macon-Bibb have a commission instead.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. By law the sheriff is the jailer of the county and appoints the other jailers, subject to the governing authority's supervision (O.C.G.A. 42-4-1). No state agency inspects the jail.
- The boardFloyd County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff site floydsheriffga.gov opened; confirmed Floyd County, Rome, Georgia.
- Roster: sheriff site links 'Current Inmates' to floyd-so-ga.zuercherportal.com; when opened it showed a maintenance notice.
- Fees: remote video visits $6 per 15 minutes (iWebVisit); phones by ICSolutions; cash bonds carry a $20 service charge. Commissary via JailATM.com, no rates shown.
- Bond page explains cash, property, bondsman and transfer bonds; bonding lobby open 24/7 except noon–1 p.m.
- 2026 county budget snapshot shows 'Sheriff's Office 16,970,525' and 'Prison 9,600,140' in the General Fund (the Prison line appears to be a separate county prison, not the jail).
- No PREA, deaths-in-custody, inspection report or contract documents found on the sheriff site.
- HB 1105 quarterly booking/ICE detainer reports are posted at https://www.floydsheriffga.gov/hb1105.
- What was tried: floydsheriffga.gov home, meet-the-sheriff, jail-detention, divisions, faq, phone-calls-visitation, bonding-ankle-monitors, commissary-funds, hb1105; floydcountyga.gov home, finance, budget information, agendas/minutes; 2026 budget snapshot PDF.
- State inspection/oversight: Georgia law makes the sheriff the county's jailer. The Georgia Sheriffs' Association, an association of the state's sheriffs rather than a state agency, publishes jail standards and a statewide monthly jail report.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Floyd 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 commissioners who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.
Names verified 2026-09-29 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered