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California Case Management System

February 15, 2011 - Joint Legislative Audit Committee Hon. Ricardo Lara, Chair Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on Public Safety Hon. Gilbert Cedillo, Chair

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Making Targeted Reductions to the Judicial Branch

January 27, 2011 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 On Corrections, Public Safety and the Judiciary Hon. Loni Hancock, Chair

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Governor's Realignment Plan—Criminal Justice

January 25, 2011 - Presented to: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 On Corrections, Public Safety, and the Judiciary Hon. Loni Hancock, Chair

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The 2011-12 Budget: Making Targeted Reductions to the Judicial Branch

January 25, 2011 - In this brief, we (1) provide an overview of the Governor’s budget proposals for the judicial branch and (2) recommend specific actions to achieve savings, while at the same time minimizing the impacts on access to the courts. Some of our cost-saving recommendations include changes in court reporting practices, utilizing competitive bidding for court security, contracting out for court interpreter services, and offsetting General Fund costs with other fund sources in the judicial branch.

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Governor’s “Structural Shortfall” Proposal for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR)

January 24, 2011 - The Governor’s budget for 2011-12 provides an additional $395 million in General Fund support for CDCR for expenses that the department indicates have exceeded its budget authority in previous years.

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Overview of Cunningham v. California and Related Legislation

November 9, 2010 - Presented to Assembly Public Safety Committee

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Overview of the Division of Juvenile Facilities

November 4, 2010 - Presented to: Joint Legislative Audit Committee Hon. Alyson Huber, Chair

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Proposition 19

September 27, 2010 - Presented to: Senate Committee on Public Safety Hon. Mark Leno, Chair Assembly Committee on Public Safety Hon. Tom Ammiano, Chair

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CDCR--Offenders With Sentences of Three Years or Less Serve Locally (Agenda Page 4, Item 5225)

June 7, 2010 - Presented to the Budget Conference Committee.

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Governor's May Revision Proposal to Shift Certain Offenders to County Jails

May 26, 2010 - Presented to: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Hon. Denise Moreno Ducheny, Chair

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AB1844: Fiscal Analysis

May 12, 2010 - We were requested by a Member of the Legislature to do a fiscal analysis of AB 1844, as amended on April 28, 2010. As is our standard practice, we also shared our response with the author of the bill, Assembly Member Nathan Fletcher.

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Elderly Inmates in California Prisons

May 11, 2010 - Presented to: Assembly Committee on Public Safety Hon. Tom Ammiano, Chair

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Governor's 2010-11 Budget Proposal for Inmate Medical Care

March 18, 2010 - Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 4 On State Administration Hon. Mark DeSaulnier, Chair

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Overview of Adult Correctional Health Care Spending

March 18, 2010 - Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 4 On State Administration Hon. Mark DeSaulnier, Chair

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The 2010-11 Budget: Prison Receivership Proposals Pose Significant Financial Risks

March 16, 2010 - In February 2006, the federal court in the Plata v. Schwarzenegger case pertaining to inmate medical care appointed a Receiver to take over the direct management and operation of the state’s prison medical health care delivery system from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). In this brief, we (1) provide a status report on the Receiver’s actions, (2) present an overview of state spending on inmate medical care, (3) analyze the various requests contained in the Governor’s budget for the Receiver, and (4) identify issues and recommendations for legislative consideration. Specifically, we recommend that the Legislature: require the administration to present at budget hearings a detailed plan on how its proposed $811 million in savings will be achieved; withhold action on staffing requests pending the submission and our review of the above plan; and, fund only the most critical IT projects in the budget year and delay funding for the less critical projects.

Criminal Justice Staff

Anita Lee
(916) 319-8321
Courts, Department of Justice, Gambling
 
Caitlin O'Neil
(916) 319-8351
State Prisons, County Jails, Sentencing
 
Jared Sippel
(916) 319-8335
Emergency Services and Business Regulation
 
Orlando Sanchez Zavala
(916) 319-8307
Correctional Health Care, Rehabilitation Programs, Juvenile Justice, Community Corrections
 
Drew Soderborg
(916) 319-8346
Deputy Legislative Analyst: Public Safety and Business Regulation