BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 175
Author: Anderson (R)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE OR FILE
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/12/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial
Bridge
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates a bridge on State
Route 52 as the Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier
Memorial Bridge."
ANALYSIS : Kenneth James Collier attended Grossmont
College and California State University, San Diego, where
he majored in administration of justice, and he first
became intrigued with a career in law enforcement through
conversations with deputies coming to and going from the
Santee Sheriff's station near where he worked. He began
his law enforcement career with the San Diego County
Marshal's Office in 1997, working as a field service
officer and later a court service officer. In 2000, the
marshal's office merged with the San Diego County Sheriff's
Department, where Ken Collier continued on as a court
service officer. In August 2001, he was hired as a
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Detention Court deputy sheriff and continued to serve in
detention facilities, the Detentions Training Unit, and the
Court Services Bureau. In July 2006, Ken Collier was hired
as a law enforcement deputy sheriff and joined the Santee
station in September 2006.
Deputy Collier was killed in the line of duty, at 39 years
of age, in the early morning hours of February 28, 2010.
Shortly after 3:00 a.m., Deputy Collier and his ride-along
sheriff's dispatcher, Ryan Debellis, came upon a driver
heading eastbound in the westbound lanes of SR 52 in the
City of Santee. Deputy Collier advised dispatch and
attempted to overtake the wrong-way driver by driving his
patrol vehicle in the center median shoulder when it struck
a bridge abutment. After rolling several hundred feet,
Deputy Collier was ejected into a ravine that Mr. Debellis
also managed to reach moments before the patrol vehicle
burst into flames. Despite the valiant efforts of fellow
deputies and officers from all over the county, emergency
medical responders, and hospital personnel, Deputy Collier
succumbed to his injuries. Mr. Debellis is expected to
make a full recovery. The fact that a suspect was arrested
and will be charged is of little consolation for the tragic
loss of Deputy Collier to his loved ones, friends,
colleagues, and the community he served.
This resolution:
1.Recounts the life and career of Kenneth James Collier, a
deputy sheriff with the San Diego County Sheriff's
Department, who lost his life in the line of duty.
2.Designates the Oak Canyon Bridge on SR 52 in Santee,
located between Post Mile 11.662 and Post Mile 11.799, as
the "Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial
Bridge."
3.Requests the Department of Transportation 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.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles
Calderon, Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De
La Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher,
Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani,
Garrick, Gatto, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi,
Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight,
Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller,
Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, V. Manuel
Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva,
Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson,
Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada, John
A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Norby, Vacancy
JA:nl 8/24/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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