The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - At the bottom of the figure, we display the total reserves planned for the end of 2020 ‑21 under the administration ’s estimates and assumptions. Under the Governor ’s proposed budget, the state would end 2020 ‑21 with $20. 5  b illion in total reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2023-24 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training—Office of Administrative Hearing Costs

Feb 13, 2023 - As of January 2023, POST had filled roughly one-third of its 16 positions in the Intake and Disposition bureau, which is responsible for analyzing and evaluating complaints received from the public and serious misconduct allegations received from l aw enforcement agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4677

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - As we describe in The 2020‑21 Spending Plan: Pensions , the 2019‑20 budget plan included a $2.5 billion supplemental pension payment to CalPERS to reduce the state’s long-term unfunded liabilities; however, the 2020‑21 budget repurposed this supplemental pension payment to instead supplant the state’s actuarially required contributions over a multiyear period beginning in 2020‑21 (due to anticipated budget shortfalls).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2021-22 Budget: State Correctional Population Outlook

Nov 19, 2020 - Since the beginning of the COVID ‑ 19 p andemic, the state inmate population declined by about 25,400 ( 21  p ercent) —from about 123, 100 i nmates on February 28, 2020 t o 97, 700 o n October 31, 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4304

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 22, 2020 - The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2020-21 Spending Plan Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2020 ‑21 budget provides $15.9  billion from the General Fund for judicial and criminal justice programs, including support for program operations and capital outlay projects, as shown in Figure  1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4288

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 6, 2021 - As shown in the figure, the inmate population is projected to increase by about 7,900 (8  percent) from 98,400 in 2020 ‑21 to 106,300 in 2021 ‑22. The parolee population is projected to decrease by about 5,600 (10  percent) from 53,900 in 2020 ‑21 to 48,300 in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - The Commission estimates that the initial state cost of claims from local governments related to the mandate between the second half of 2020-21 and 2021-22 could range between $37,000 and $1.2  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - Compared with the estimates in the June 2020 budget plan, the administration revises its estimates of the guarantee up $1.9  billion (2.4  percent) in 2019 ‑20 and $11.9  billion (16.8  percent) in 2020 ‑21.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

State Corrections: Response to COVID-19

May 8, 2020 - As part of the 2019 ‑20 budget package, the Legislature authorized the removal of DJJ from CDCR and making it a separate department under the Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency beginning July 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4229

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - About half of this decline occurred between 2019 and 2020, suggesting that factors such as temporary stay ‑at ‑home orders and closure of nonessential retail businesses in the early part of the COVID ‑19 pandemic likely contributed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055