The 2017-18 Budget: Trial Courts and the County Office of Education General Fund Offset

Feb 16, 2017 - This excess property tax revenue offsets state support for trial courts. The transfer occurs at the direction of the Department of Finance and the State Controller ’s Office the year after the taxes are collected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3567

Recent Report Compares California Inmate Health Care Costs to Rest of Nation [Publication Details]

Jan 18, 2018 - Data from this report showed that California had the highest per inmate health care costs among the 49 states that reported data. In this post, we present various findings from this report and reasons for California’s relatively high per inmate health care costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3733

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of State Hospitals (DSH)

Feb 22, 2017 - Specifically, DSH operates a total of 1,462 beds in both state prisons and state hospitals —all but the 85 beds for women and condemned inmates. The first inpatient psychiatric program in a state prison opened at the California Medical Facility (CMF) in Vacaville in 1988.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3578

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: 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: 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: 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