The Detention Center
Emmet County Correctional Facility (Jeffrey P. Bodzick Administrative Office & Correctional Facility)
- Operated byEmmet County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address450 Bay Street, Petoskey, MI 49770
- Beds103-bed capacity across maximum, medium, and minimum security areas; runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with a Jail Administrator, 4 sergeants, and corrections officers
Source: Emmet County, MI - Corrections/Jail Division · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
7/10Open- ✓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 — not published
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✓Who else it holds, and for how much
- ✓How to post bond
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds103
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Matt Leirstein
- Runs the jailThe Emmet County Sheriff's Office operates the Emmet County Correctional Facility (Jeffrey P. Bodzick Administrative Office & Correctional Facility) at 450 Bay Street, Petoskey
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
- Statutory basisMCL 51.75 (sheriff has custody of the county jail)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Emmet County, MI - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-19
The Judges
Michigan circuit and district court judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms under Mich. Const. art. VI — state judicial officers, not county officials.
Emmet County Circuit Court
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-19
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardNot found (chair elected annually by the Board; current officeholder not named on the page) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Corrections/Jail Division page states the facility 'has been recognized as being in compliance' with Michigan Department of Corrections Administrative Rules from 2003-2024, and links annual reports from 2010-2023.
- The 2023 Corrections Division Annual Report (hosted on the county's Revize CMS document library) reports total expenditures of $2,317,049 against a $2,339,986 budget, a $61.29 daily housing cost per inmate, $47,455 in fees collected (including $35,316.73 in general housing fees), an average daily population of 47, 684 admissions, a 100% MDOC compliance audit rating, and three-year contracts with Tigg's Canteen Services (food) and Keefe Commissary; no deaths in custody or PREA statistics were disclosed in the report.
- Sheriff's Office homepage describes three bond-posting options: an in-person lobby kiosk, expressaccount.com, or licensed bonding agents, with service fees assessed based on deposit amount.
- State inspection/oversight: Michigan Department of Corrections conducts an annual compliance audit against state Administrative Rules; the county's own site cites a 100% compliance rating in the 2023 Corrections Division Annual Report.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Emmet 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 who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-19 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered