The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - Concerns With DROS Special Account Insolvency Led to Greater Use of General Fund … As shown in Figure  2, support for BOF followed a fee-based funding structure through 2018-19, with all BOF costs supported by special funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - Specifically, the 2018 ‑19 budget included $1.3  billion in lease revenue bond authority backed by the General Fund —rather than the SCFCF —to finance ten previously planned projects. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - Figure 8 Receiver ’s Action Plan Outlines Goals and Actions to Improve Mental Health Care Goal 1 Improve Mental Health Care Delivery Through Culture Change and Effective Management Selected Actions Implement a comprehensive communications strategy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - As discussed in the “Inpatient Mental Health Beds ” section in our brief The 2025‑26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and shown in Figure 8, CDCR is operating 713 inpatient beds in excess of the amount projected to be necessary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

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

Jun 12, 2025 - This  is known as the “clearance rate. ” As shown in Figure  4 , California ’s clearance rate for property crimes declined over the past decade from about 14  percent of reported crimes cleared in 2014 to about 8  percent in 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The California State Bar: Considerations for a Fee Increase

Jun 26, 2019 - The State Bar seeks to cover $19. 8  m illion in increased ongoing costs by proposing a $ 100 o ngoing mandatory increase to the renewal fee for its active State Bar members beginning January 1, 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4080

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - As shown in Figure  8 , police departments have typically received the greatest share of state asset forfeiture distributions. The amount distributed to police departments declined between 2016 and 2018, while the amount distributed to sheriffs ’ offices declined between 2015 and 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor's Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 19, 2019 - As shown in Figure  7 , the Governor ’s budget proposes about $4. 2  b illion from all state funds (General Fund and state special funds) to support the operations of the judicial branch in 2019 ‑20, an increase of $ 310  m illion, or 8  p ercent, above the revised amount for 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3940

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - The 2018 ‑19 budget included $3.2  million General Fund in 2018 ‑19, declining to $709,000 annually beginning in 2020 ‑21, to construct and maintain this web portal. County Law Libraries. To address declines in the amount of civil filing fee revenues available to support county law libraries, four budgets have included one-time General Fund assistance to help maintain service levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

The 2020-21 Budget: Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 18, 2020 - To support the reorganization of DJJ into DYCR, the 2019 ‑ 20 b udget included $1. 2  m illion General Fund and 8. 8  p ositions in 2019 ‑20 (increasing to $1. 8  m illion and 12  p ositions annually beginning in 2020 ‑21).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4164