The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - However, beginning in 2022-23, expenditures began outpacing revenues, shrinking the fund balance. The Governor ’s budget estimates that the DROS Special Account will be insolvent in 2026-27 if no action is taken.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - In our review of DOJ ’s March  2022 report, we identified various concerns about the viability of the other potential funding options identified. For example, one potential funding option discussed in the report was to increase the specific fee added when individuals are convicted of criminal offenses which generates the revenue deposited into the DNA Identification Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - Those departments may seek increases in compensation to ensure their pay remains competitive with CDCR —potentially adding still more costs to the state. Extending Licensing Exemptions to Out‑of‑State Licensed Providers State Licensing Policies Limit Pool of Potential Providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - The amount of revenue deposited has steadily declined over time, largely due to declining criminal fine and fee revenue. This has resulted in SCFCF expenditures—such as debt service and facility modifications—routinely exceeding revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673

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

Feb 22, 2017 - Acute Psychiatric Programs (APPs). APPs provide shorter-term, intensive treatment for inmates who show signs of a major mental illness or higher-level symptoms of a chronic mental illness. Currently, there are 372 APP beds, all of which are in state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3578

The 2017-18 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Mar 1, 2017 - Acute Psychiatric Programs (APPs). APPs provide shorter-term, intensive treatment for inmates who show signs of a major mental illness or higher level symptoms of a chronic mental illness. Currently, there are 372 APP beds, all of which are in state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3595

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

Jun 12, 2025 - For example, if the affected property is worth more than $50,000 but not more than $200,000, a year can be added to the person ’s sentence. If the property is worth more than $200,000 but not more than $1,000,000, two years can be added. ✘ Proposition 36 (2024) Allows up to three years to be added to the sentences of people who worked with two or
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Public Safety Package

Feb 17, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget proposes $6  million annually from 2022 ‑23 through 2024 ‑25 (declining to $500,000 annually beginning in 2026 ‑27) for a new program to pursue ORCE investigations and prosecutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - Other major General Fund adjustments include: $357.8  million reappropriation of unspent funds from the 2022-23 and 2023-24 budgets to 2024-25 to pay for deficits in CDCR ’s general security program and medical care programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - The budget proposes $320  million in lease revenue bond authority for the design ‑build phase of the new San Luis Obispo Courthouse project. (While this would not result in immediate General Fund costs, the lease revenue payments will come from the General Fund.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113