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

Oct 24, 2025 - Some of the major augmentations include: $32  million in 2025-26 (increasing to $42.9  million annually beginning in 2029-30) to adjust the budgeted amount for parole rehabilitation programs in a way that more closely aligns with inflationary cost growth. $20  million one time to continue the Rehabilitative Investment Grants for Healing and Transformation program that expands
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - As shown in Figure  11 , in  2018 ‑19, arrests per attorney in 25 of 32 district attorney offices clustered between 201 to 400. Arrests per attorney in public defender offices reflected greater variation across counties, with 24 of 32 public defender offices reporting ranging between 201 to 500 arrests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

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

Jun 12, 2025 - Subsequently, between 2021 and 2023, retail theft increased by 32  percent. Over the entire ten ‑year period —2014 to 2023 —reported retail theft increased by 48 crimes per 100,000  people, or 11  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

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

Feb 22, 2024 - Background State Currently Operating 32 Prisons. As of January  17,  2024, CDCR was responsible for incarcerating a total of about 93,900   people —89 ,100  men, 4,200 women, and 600  nonbinary people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

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

Feb 19, 2019 - After the department is able to demonstrate that the proposal would result in savings as described above, we would recommend that the Legislature approve the requested $ 32  m illion for vehicle replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3940

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 22, 2016 - Governor’s Proposal The Governor ’s budget proposes $32  million (General Fund) in 2016 –17 and $34  million in 2017 –18 to expand the MCRP. The 2016 –17 appropriation includes $20  million to support existing contracts and $12  million to expand the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3359

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget includes $4.4  million from the Gambling Control Fund for two years to continue 32 existing positions intended to reduce the backlog of licensing applications from cardrooms and third-party providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4097

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - Department of Justice The budget provides $1.3  billion for the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2023- 24 —an increase of $32  million (3  percent) from the revised 2022-23 level. This amount includes $490  million from the General Fund —a net increase of $8  million (2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

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

Feb 16, 2023 - For example, with the deactivation of DVI, the state was able to avoid a water ‑treatment project —projected in 2018 to cost $32   million —that would have been necessary to comply with drinking water standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Justice Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - The Governor ’s 2022 ‑23 budget includes $52  million to support BOF —$20  million from the General Fund and $32  million from various special funds. (We  note that the 2021 ‑22 budget included a one ‑time $10.3  million General Fund augmentation for grants to county sheriff offices to assist with the removal of firearms and ammunition from prohibited  persons.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4527