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Off-duty rules, agency by agency
What individual agencies have actually put in writing about off-duty work — who approves it, what the limits are, and what is prohibited. Every claim traced to the document it came from.
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By state
Every state and territory is listed, with federal agencies below them. A blue square means there is a page — the number is how many agencies it covers. Pick a state to see them.
- AL
- AK
- AZ1
- AR
- CA4
- CO1
- CT
- DE1
- FL4
- GA2
- HI1
- ID
- IL2
- IN
- IA
- KS1
- KY
- LA1
- ME
- MD2
- MA
- MI1
- MN1
- MS
- MO1
- MT
- NE
- NV
- NH
- NJ
- NM
- NY
- NC
- ND
- OH1
- OK
- OR1
- PA1
- RI
- SC
- SD
- TN
- TX5
- UT1
- VT
- VA5
- WA3
- WV
- WI
- WY
- DC1
Territories
- PR1
- GU
- VI
- AS
- MP
Federal
Grey federal squares do not have a page of their own yet — but the blue ones set out the regulations that govern them. Homeland Security's covers ICE, the Secret Service, TSA and the Coast Guard; the Justice Department's covers the Bureau of Prisons, the Marshals, DEA and ATF; the Interior Department's covers the Park Service, the Park Police, Land Management, Fish and Wildlife, and Indian Affairs; and the Defense Department's covers the Military Police Corps, Air Force Security Forces, Navy Masters-at-Arms, Army CID and NCIS.
PublishedNothing yet
- 46AgenciesEvery one written up from its own published document.
- 25City departmentsMunicipal forces, from the largest in the country down.
- 10County and sheriffIncluding the largest sheriff's department in the United States.
- 5State agenciesState police, highway patrol, and other state-level enforcement agencies.
- 1UniversityCampus and university system forces, policing their own institutions.
- 4FederalTwo regulations, always current, covering ten agencies between them.
- 1TerritorialAgencies of the U.S. territories, where little is published.
135kSworn personnel
Across the 30 of 46 agencies with a figure we could trace:
Across 23 states and territories, from 58 source documents read end to end.
Save your shift schedule once and BlueShifts fills the rest of the year in.
Recently added
The last 12 agencies read and written up, newest first.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office1,600sworn- Jacksonville Sheriff's Office1,804sworn
Dallas Police Department3,323sworn- Detroit Police Department2,500sworn
Defense — Military Police, Security Forces, Masters-at-Arms—sworn
California Highway Patrol9,500sworn- Portland Police Bureau809sworn
- Saint Paul Police Department616sworn
- King County Sheriff's Office770sworn
- Interior — Park Service, Park Police, BLM, Fish and Wildlife, BIA3,400sworn
- Kansas City Missouri Police Department1,148sworn
- Illinois State Police1,846sworn
Where this comes from
Two kinds of document, and the useful pages need both. A collective agreement — called a memorandum of understanding in some states — sets terms that were bargained: minimum hours on a detail, how rates are arrived at, what coverage applies. A policy manual sets procedure: who approves, what is prohibited, what happens when the rules are broken.
Where an agency has neither, sometimes the answer sits in state law instead. Washington puts off-duty employment for its troopers directly into statute.
What these pages are not
They report what a document says, on the date we read it. They do not describe how anything works in practice, they are not advice, and they cannot account for a policy revised or an agreement renegotiated since. Your own agency's current documents govern — and where what you read here does not match what you have been told, the documents win and we would like to know.
Missing an agency?
This grows one agency at a time, because each page means reading the actual documents rather than guessing from a recruiting page. If yours is not here, or something on a page has gone out of date, the support page reaches us.
Whatever your agency's rules turn out to be
The record is yours either way — the hours, the employer, the rate, the miles, and whether the money has landed.
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