The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - This amount consists of funds that are encumbered ($157  million), statutorily excluded ($110  million), designated for prepayments or other purposes ($108  million), or held by Judicial Council on behalf of the trial courts for specific projects ($27  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - About 30  percent of the workload was for state entities, with the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) being the two largest users. Additionally, usage of specific types of BFS services varies by entity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - Second, we recommend the Legislature modify the language to require that notification be provided to JLBC 30 ‑days before a transfer is made and that such notification include information on how the final transfer amount was determined.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - In contrast, if the system was at 100  percent of design capacity, there would be enough assignments to serve 77  percent of its population on June 30, 2023. Under the second methodology, the calculation used budgeted assignment capacity instead of actual capacity as of June 30, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - The Governor ’s 2024-25 budget proposes budget provisional language allowing DOF to authorize an additional, up to $100  million no-interest loan from the LDF to the General Fund subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

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 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 6, 2021 - The budget reflects the planned closure of DVI in Tracy by September 30, 2021. This closure is estimated to generate General Fund savings of $100.9  million in 2021 ‑22 and $126.1  million in 2022 ‑23 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460

The 2023-24 Budget: Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Testing Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - Crime laboratories were directed to either (1)  process SAE kits and upload DNA profiles within 120 days after receiving the evidence or (2)  send the evidence to another laboratory for testing within 30 days after receiving the evidence.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4714

The 2023-24 Budget: May Revision Proposals Related to the California Model and San Quentin State Prison

May 19, 2023 - To complete projects of similar scope at the state ’s 30 other prisons not currently scheduled for deactivation would cost over $800  million in additional annual debt service —a total cost of about $20  billion over 25 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4771

The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 16, 2023 - Current law requires the California Correctional Center (CCC) in Susanville to be deactivated by June 30, 2023. As of January 2023, all the people who were housed at CCC have already been relocated to other prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686