The Detention Center
Leelanau County Jail
- Operated byLeelanau County Sheriff's Office
- Address8527 E. Government Center Dr., Suttons Bay, MI 49682 (Sheriff's Office/Government Center)
- FeesAdmin booking fee $40; general population housing $15/day; $10 medication co-pay and $10 nursing fee, per the office's own fee schedule
- BedsNot found
Source: Leelanau County, MI - Sheriff Office Services · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓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 — not published
- ✓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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Michael Borkovich
- Runs the jailThe Sheriff's Office operates the county jail out of the Sheriff's Office facility, per the office's own site
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
- Statutory basisMCL 51.75 gives the elected county sheriff 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: Leelanau County, MI - Sheriff · 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.
Leelanau 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 boardhttps://www.leelanau.gov/departments/board_of_commissioners/ →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county's 2026 Adopted Budget - General Fund Expenditures by Department document (hosted on the county's designated ClearGov/Revize document store) itemizes a Sheriff Department (fund 225301) budget of $3,140,117 and a Jail Division (fund 225351) budget of $2,694,590 for 2026, a combined $5,834,707.
- The Sheriff's Office 'Services' page publishes a specific inmate fee schedule (booking fee, daily housing fee, medical co-pays, and other service fees).
- No PREA policy, inspection reports, in-custody death records, operational contracts, bond information, or a public roster were found on the Sheriff's Office site.
- State inspection/oversight: Michigan county jails are subject to inspection under the Michigan Department of Corrections' Administrative Rules for Jails and Lockups; no county-published inspection reports were found on leelanau.gov.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Leelanau 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