Rockdale County, Georgia — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Rockdale County Detention Center

Operated byRockdale County Sheriff's Office (Jail Division)
Jail address911 Chambers Drive NW, Conyers, GA 30012 (Visitation page)
Other address shownJail Division page gives 2385 Sigman Industrial Court
VisitationVideo visits through Securus; onsite visits currently attorney-only
Rated capacityNot found

Source: Rockdale County Sheriff's Office — Visitation · checked 2026-09-29

Transparency rating

Not scored. Rockdale County's and its sheriff's own websites could not be reached or read in the session that produced this record, so their disclosures were never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the county.

The Building

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

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Eric J. Levett

Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Jail Division page says the Jail Division 'manages and maintains the detention center/jail for the entire county'
CurrentNamed in the Georgia Sheriffs' Association 2026 Directory; not confirmed on a county page

Still needed

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

Source: Georgia Sheriffs' Association 2026 Directory · 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 Rockdale County

Superior Court: the Rockdale Judicial Circuit, which serves Rockdale 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 Rockdale County Magistrate Court. For most charges a magistrate sets bail soon after arrest.

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 2026-09-29

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.
NoteCounty site pages were refused; governing body not confirmed.
The boardNot found
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

Sheriff's site root refused (HTTP 403, then proxy HTTP 429); two searches spent (one general, one limited to rockdalesheriff.com / rockdalecountyga.gov). Sub-pages Inmate Services, Jail Division, Visitation, Quick Links, Inmate Programs and Records Request opened; confirmed Georgia (Conyers).
No opened page named the sheriff, so the name is the association directory lead.
Visitation page names the Rockdale County Detention Center at 911 Chambers Drive NW, Conyers; the Jail Division page gives 2385 Sigman Industrial Court — the two pages differ.
Quick Links page links an 'Inmate Search' (Tyler Technologies JailSearch portal); the portal itself was refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED).
Quick Links lists an Inmate Bonding Procedures page, but it was refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED) — bond guidance could not be judged and is recorded as no.
Inmate Services / Visitation pages name Securus for video visits with no fee amounts.
What was tried and refused: https://rockdalesheriff.com, https://www.rockdalesheriff.com (403); http://rockdalesheriff.com/rcso-bureaus/jail-bureau/ (403); inmate-mail-procedure (403); inmate-bonding-procedures, command-staff, contact-us, departments, gahb1105 and the JailSearch portal (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); https://www.rockdalecountyga.gov/venue/sheriffs-office/ (proxy HTTP 429); https://www.rockdalecountyga.gov/ (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED).
No capacity, budget, deaths, PREA, inspection, contract or fee-rate material found on the pages that opened.
Not scored: The sheriff's home page, bonding procedures page, jail bureau page and inmate search were refused by our reader; only the jail division, visitation and inmate services pages were read. Marking the rest 'not published' would claim more than was checked. Found published on the pages that did open: named, roster.
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 Rockdale 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