Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 152

Introduced by Senator Gaines

June 13, 2016

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 152—Relative to the Deputy Sheriff Danny P. Oliver Memorial Highway.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SCR 152, as introduced, Gaines. Deputy Sheriff Danny P. Oliver Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 50 in El Dorado County as the Deputy Sheriff Danny P. Oliver Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Fiscal committee: yes.

WHEREAS, Danny P. Oliver grew up in the Del Paso Heights
neighborhood of Sacramento and graduated from Grant High
School. Growing up in that “tough part” of town “allowed him to
understand people” and gave him a street sense that served him
well as a sheriff’s deputy, according to his wife, Susan Oliver.
While Danny Oliver’s father was a firefighter and would have
enjoyed having his son seek the same professional path, Danny
instead gravitated toward a career in law enforcement. He attended
the sheriff’s academy and finished at the top of his class
academically while his wife worked two jobs to support his training
and their family; and

WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Oliver joined the Sacramento
County Sheriff’s Department in 1999 and worked the graveyard
shift for a decade. Deputy Sheriff Oliver was a dedicated street
cop who always showed up for work an hour early and went after
the worst criminals on his beat; and

WHEREAS, Though he loved catching the “bad guys,” Deputy
Sheriff Oliver also had a soft side. He once arrested a woman on
a drug charge who was with her daughter. She appeared stable, so
he uncuffed the suspect and let her sit with her young daughter.
As he left them, the suspect’s daughter called Deputy Sheriff Oliver
a teddy bear--a term that became his nickname in the department;
and

WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Oliver was also dedicated to his
family. He helped his daughters with their schoolwork and did
CrossFit exercises with them, but he never felt that they had to be
like him. During his last conversation with his wife, he told Susan
that he had finished making her a chicken coop in their yard; and

WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Oliver also had a soft heart and
enjoyed connecting with the Sacramento County community he
was charged with protecting, answering emails from concerned
citizens, and never declining to attend a neighborhood meeting;
and

WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Oliver, at 47 years of age, was shot
and killed on October 24, 2014, in the parking lot of a Motel 6 on
Arden Way in Sacramento County as he and Detective Michael
Davis were investigating a suspicious vehicle. A male occupant
of the vehicle had opened fire on the deputies with a 9mm handgun,
striking Deputy Sheriff Oliver in the forehead. The man and a
female occupant then fled in the vehicle as his partner returned
fire. A short distance away the male shot a civilian when the couple
attempted to carjack the man’s pickup truck. The couple then
carjacked two other vehicles as they continued fleeing the area.
The man suspected of killing Deputy Sheriff Oliver, Luis Enrique
Monroy-Bracamonte, is also accused in the shooting death of
Placer County Sheriff’s Detective Michael David Davis, Jr. that
same day in the City of Auburn; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of United States Highway Route 50 in El Dorado County
from Cambridge Road Over Crossing 2583 (PM 4.962) to Cameron
Park Drive Under Crossing 25-84 (PM 6.570) as the Deputy Sheriff
Danny P. Oliver Memorial Highway; and be it further

Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested
to determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the
signing requirements for the state highway system showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs; and be it
further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.