The 2017‑18 Budget: Implementation of Proposition 57

Apr 6, 2017 - Currently, state law requires that a person who is convicted of a felony and who previously has been convicted of one or more violent or serious felonies be sentenced to state prison as follows: Second Strike Offense.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3648

The 2017-18 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 14, 2017 - State Oversight of Court Information Technology (IT) Projects. The California Department of Technology (CDT) is the state ’s central IT organization and generally has broad authority over all aspects of technology in state government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3557

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of State Hospitals (DSH) [Publication Details]

Feb 22, 2017 - The 2017-18 Budget: Department of State Hospitals (DSH) [Publication Details] The 2017-18 Budget: Department of State Hospitals (DSH) Format: HTML Description: In this web post, we provide an overview of the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) and the level of funding proposed for the department in the Governor’s 2017-18 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3578

The 2017-18 Budget: Trial Court Security Funding for Counties

Jan 25, 2017 - This realignment shifted responsibility for funding most trial court security costs (provided by county sheriffs) from the state General Fund to counties. Specifically, the state shifted $496  million in tax revenues to counties to finance these new responsibilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3538

2016 Data on Crime in California

Oct 17, 2017 - 2016 Data on Crime in California October 17, 2017 2016 Data on Crime in California Since 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program has collected data on crimes reported to law enforcement agencies throughout the United States.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3708

The 2017-18 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Criminal Justice Budget

Jan 27, 2017 - First, in 2011 the state realigned various criminal justice responsibilities to the counties, including the responsibility for certain low-level felony offenders. This realignment reduced state correctional spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3539

Improving California’s Criminal Fine and Fee System

Jan 5, 2016 - (A more detailed breakdown of deposits into specific state and local funds can be found in the Appendix) Half of Revenue Distributed to State. The state received a little over $1  billion of the total amount of fine and fee revenue distributed in 2013 –14 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3322

The 2016-17 Budget: Fiscal Impacts of Proposition 47

Feb 12, 2016 - (In recent years, the state has been under a federal court order to reduce overcrowding in CDCR ’s 34 prisons. Specifically, the court found that prison overcrowding was the primary reason the state was unable to provide inmates with constitutionally adequate health care and ordered the state to reduce its prison population to 137.5  percent of design capacity.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3352

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Other Issues)

Jun 19, 2015 - A budget trailer bill, in a related change, repeals the existing state law —found to be ineffective by various reviews —that required elimination of some state positions that are vacant for six consecutive months.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3278

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of Justice

Jan 31, 2017 - DOJ currently has a Tobacco Litigation and Enforcement Section that administers and enforces numerous federal and state tobacco laws. For example, this section is responsible for overseeing compliance with the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) —an agreement reached in 1998 between four large tobacco companies and the Attorneys General of 46 states, including California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3543