A California lawmaker is considering introducing new police transparency legislation as a result of a Sacramento Bee investigation into an Elk Grove police death, as a mental health organization is calling for an attorney general investigation.
Scott Saetern, 37, was unarmed and in an apparent mental health crisis at an Elk Grove gas station in June 2025 when police placed him in a constraint device and spit hood and laid him in the back of a vehicle for 10 minutes as he yelled for help and eventually lost consciousness.
He never regained consciousness and died the following day…