Bill Text: CA ACR118 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens Memorial Highway.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-14 - Referred to Com. on TRANS. [ACR118 Detail]
Download: California-2021-ACR118-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Concurrent Resolution
No. 118
| Introduced by Assembly Member Choi (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Chen, Nguyen, and Quirk-Silva) (Principal coauthors: Senators Bates, Min, Newman, and Umberg) |
January 04, 2022 |
Relative to Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens Memorial Highway.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 118, as introduced, Choi.
Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens Memorial Highway.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Route 57 in the Cities of Orange and Anaheim as the Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
Digest Key
Fiscal Committee: YESBill Text
WHEREAS, Sandra Hutchens began her law enforcement career with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in 1976; and
WHEREAS, Sandra Hutchens started as a patrol secretary, shortly thereafter graduating from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Academy Class No. 191 as a deputy, eventually rising to the rank of division chief, where she retired from in 2008; and
WHEREAS, Sandra Hutchens was appointed as the 12th Sheriff of Orange County on June 10, 2008, and was subsequently elected to two, four-year terms in 2010 and 2014; and
WHEREAS, Sandra Hutchens concluded her time as Sheriff of Orange County on January 7, 2019; and
WHEREAS, With more than 38 years of service in law enforcement, Sheriff Hutchens possessed invaluable experience in nearly every facet of law enforcement; and
WHEREAS, During Sheriff Hutchens’ tenure as Orange County Sheriff, she implemented significant reforms that greatly contributed to the safety of all Orange County residents; and
WHEREAS, A partial list of Sheriff Hutchens’ accomplishments include maintaining the lowest crime rates in the nation; enhancing the department’s homeland security function through expansion of the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center; creating the department’s Cyber Crime Unit; formation of the Sheriff’s Interfaith Advisory Council; and leading the department through the fiscal crisis of 2008 and 2009; and
WHEREAS, In addition to her management of the department, Sheriff Hutchens was recognized as a national leader in law enforcement; and
WHEREAS, Sheriff Hutchens was actively involved in the Major County Sheriffs of America association, where she served as president from 2016 to 2018, the National Sheriffs’ Association, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police; and
WHEREAS, Sheriff Hutchens served as a board member for the National Executive Institute Associates, the California State Sheriffs’ Association, the Orange County Gang Reduction and Intervention Partnership, and, from 2012 to 2017, she served on the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training; and
WHEREAS, Sheriff Hutchens’ work was not limited to the law enforcement community; and
WHEREAS, Sheriff Hutchens was involved with several nonprofit and community organizations, including the Orange County United Way, Laura’s House, the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, and the National Law Enforcement Cancer Support Foundation; and
WHEREAS, On Sheriff Hutchens’ desk was a quote from former President Ronald Reagan, “There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit”; and
WHEREAS, These words embodied Sheriff Hutchens, who lived by them, and what she accomplished will endure beyond her life; and
WHEREAS, The author Ernest Hemingway described courage as “grace under pressure”; and
WHEREAS, There is no one who embodied that description more than Sheriff Hutchens, who lived her life and led the Orange County Sheriff’s Department with courage, grace, and dignity; and
WHEREAS, Sheriff Hutchens bravely closed her life in the same manner on January 4, 2021, after an eight-year fight against breast cancer; and
WHEREAS, Sheriff Hutchens never sought credit, but the people of Orange County owe her a tremendous debt of gratitude; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the portion of State Route 57 in the Cities of Orange and Anaheim, between milepost marker 11.238 and milepost marker 13.416, as the Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens 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 Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.
