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Today, Laurel Rosenhall, a reporter for the nonprofit news site CalMatters, catches us up on state lawmakers’ efforts to curb police shootings. Earlier, I talked with her about this year’s legislation, which she’s been tracking in a podcast called “Force of Law.”

This is part of a collaboration between The Times and CalMatters.

Here’s Laurel’s update:

California is on the brink of passing a law meant to reduce police shootings. That may not sound very surprising given the politics of this blue state, where Democrats hold every statewide office and about three-quarters of the seats in the Legislature. Or given the toll of police shootings on its people: California police officers kill someone, on average, every two to three days — a rate that’s higher than the national average.

Lawmakers shelved a bill last year to set a tougher standard for the police to use deadly force. It was inspired by the death of Stephon Clark, who was shot by the Sacramento police in his grandparents’ backyard after officers mistook the cellphone he was holding for a gun. Its failure was in part attributed to the sway police unions have in the Capitol.

[Read more about the Stephon Clark case here.]

This year, as legislative leaders urged civil rights advocates and law enforcement groups to negotiate, tensions have flared. Demonstrators marched in Sacramento after prosecutors cleared the officers who killed Mr. Clark. Politicians attended the funerals of two officers from the Sacramento region who were killed. And new legislation to regulate the use of force spurred emotional public testimony — from Californians whose family members have been killed by the police, lawmakers who served in law enforcement and a sheriff’s deputy who was shot by a man who killed her partner.