The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - This commitment effectively backfilled the $1.4  billion transferred from the SCFCF to the General Fund to help address the state ’s budget condition between 2009 ‑10 and 2017 ‑18. The 2021 ‑22 budget formally shifted support for the construction of any future courthouses to the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2024-25 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 20, 2024 - Since implementation of Proposition  57 began in 2017, the prison population has declined by about 37,500 people (29  percent) —from 131,300 on June 30, 2017 to 93,700 as of January 31, 2024. We note that while Proposition  57 has been a significant driver of this decline, various other sentencing changes have also contributed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4849

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Beginning in 2018, Chapter  681 of 2017 (SB  395, Lara) required that arrested youths age 15 and younger be provided a consultation with legal counsel before they may waive their Miranda rights or be interrogated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2023-24 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 23, 2023 - Since implementation of Proposition  57 began in 2017, the prison population has declined by about 35,700 people (27  percent) —from 131,300 on June 30, 2017 to 95,600 as of February 1, 2023. We note that, while Proposition  57 has been a significant driver of this decline, various other sentencing changes have also contributed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4703

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The valuation does not provide separate normal costs for the benefit for employee hired before 2017 versus those hired after 2017; however, the normal cost for the benefit earned by new employees certainly is lower than the normal cost for the benefit earned by employees hired before 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Overview and Update on the Prison Receivership

Nov 8, 2023 - Development of the EHRS began in 2013 and was first implemented statewide in 2017, with additional improvements to the system in later years. The has state dedicated a total of about $400 million to the project including the addition of functionality after completion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4813

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

Jan 27, 2017 - Governor ’s Budget Proposals Total Proposed Spending of $16.1  Billion in 2017-18. As shown in Figure  2, the Governor ’s 2017-18 budget includes a total of $16.1  billion from all fund sources for judicial and criminal justice programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3539

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - In both 2017 and 2018, state asset forfeiture distributions declined by about 10  p ercent. Similarly, federal asset forfeiture distributions declined by 36  p ercent from 2016 t o 2017 —from $88. 5  m illion to $ 57  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128

The 2017-18 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Criminal Justice Budget [Publication Details]

Jan 27, 2017 - The Governor’s budget for 2017-18 proposes total expenditures of $16.1 billion for judicial and criminal justice programs. In this post, we describe recent trends in state spending on criminal justice and provide an overview of the major changes in the Governor’s proposed budget for criminal justice programs in 2017-18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3539

The 2023-24 Budget: Racial and Identity Profiling Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - This amount consists of $25.5  million for the initial claiming period between 2017-18 through 2019-20, $11.8  million for 2020-21, and $13.2  million for 2021-22. The Governor ’s budget also includes $16.5  million ongoing General Fund to support such costs in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4715