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Marion County considers ordinance to let law enforcement accrue extra comp time for training
Summary
County officials discussed an ordinance to let law-enforcement personnel accrue an additional 160 hours of compensatory time for training—creating a separate bank above the existing 40-hour limit—to avoid overtime payouts and require staff/HR system changes. No formal vote was recorded.
A law enforcement representative opened discussion at the Marion County personnel meeting on June 26 about an ordinance to let sworn personnel accumulate an extra 160 hours of compensatory time for training in addition to the county's standard 40-hour comp-time bank.
The proposal, presented as an ordinance to be filed with the court, would create a separate earning code and a separate bank so time earned during lengthy training—examples cited included a 14-week academy and an 8–10 week field training officer (FTO) period—would not automatically trigger time-and-a-half payouts when employees exceed the normal 40-hour workweek. "This is an ordinance that we proposed to go before the court to allow us as law enforcement to add additional hours to…
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