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Sacramento weighs police reforms after shooting death of mentally ill man

A man walks by a police patrol car on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in a parking lot along the West Capitol Avenue strip in West Sacramento, Calif. The street is the same one where, according to court testimony, police officer Sergio Alvarez cruised for victims while on patrol. Last year, Alvarez was convicted of kidnapping and raping several of those victims, all of them addicts or prostitutes. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)
A man walks by a police patrol car on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in a parking lot along the West Capitol Avenue strip in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)
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City leaders in Sacramento are taking steps to release video of a fatal police shooting that took place in July – an incident that has drawn calls for more transparency and oversight of law enforcement in the state's capital.

At a closely-watched meeting last week, city council members took up the issue and other reforms for a community police commission not yet a year old.

For more, we're joined by Sacramento Bee City Hall reporter Anita Chabria.