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          Date of Hearing:   March 22, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                  ACR 124 (Bass) - As Introduced:  February 16, 2010
           
          SUBJECT  :  State Route 10

           SUMMARY  :  Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 10 as the  
          Sergeant Curtis Massey Memorial Freeway.  Specifically,  this  
          bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life and career of Curtis Massey, an officer with  
            the Culver City Police Department who lost his life in the  
            line of duty.  

          2)Designates the segment of SR 10 between the National Boulevard  
            and La Cienega Boulevard exits as the Sergeant Curtis Massey  
            Memorial Freeway.  

          3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) 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 that cost, to erect those  
            signs.  

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways.  This includes the installation  
          and maintenance of highway signs.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  Unknown

           COMMENTS  :  Curtis Massey graduated from the Los Angeles County  
          Sheriff's Academy in 1992.  Sergeant Massey devoted his life to  
          his family and the public, particularly at-risk youths. Serving  
          first as a youth DARE officer and then at the juvenile detective  
          bureau, he served with the Culver City Police Department for 17  
          years.  

          During that time, Sergeant Massey's admirable drive to protect  
          and serve the public, and his dedication to duty, led him to be  
          honored as "Officer of the Year" three times within the Culver  
          City Police Department.  Sergeant Massey was also a recipient of  
          the "Medal of Valor," the department's highest honor.  At the  








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          time of his death, he had recently been assigned as the  
          supervisor of the juvenile detective section, and spent a lot of  
          his own free time working with at-risk children.  

          On January 28, 2009, Sergeant Massey was killed when his  
          unmarked vehicle was struck head-on by a vehicle being driven  
          the wrong way on SR 10 near National Boulevard in Los Angeles.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
          
          None received

           Opposition 
           
          None received
           

          Analysis Prepared by  :   Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093