The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - As shown in Figure  2, support for BOF has increased over the past decade from $26.6  million in 2016-17 to $70.4  million in 2025-26 —an increase of $43.8  million (or 165  percent). During this period, BOF also shifted from being fully supported by various special funds and began receiving General Fund support in 2019-20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

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

Jun 12, 2025 - Reduction of Prison Terms Due to Proposition   57 (2016). In 2016, voters approved Proposition  57, which, among other provisions, expanded CDCR ’s authority to reduce people ’s prison terms through credits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

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

Feb 20, 2024 - Proposition  57 (2016) Caused Temporary Increases in PRCS Population.  When a policy change causes people to be released from prison earlier than otherwise, it causes a temporary increase in the PRCS and parole populations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4849

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - To help address this steady decline and to maintain the level of services provided by BFS, the state has provi ded General Fund support to backfill the reduction in criminal fine and fee revenue deposited in the DNA Identification Fund since 2016 ‑17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

2016 Data on Crime in California

Oct 17, 2017 - 2016 Data on Crime in California October 17, 2017 2016 Data on Crime in California Since 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program has collected data on crimes reported to law enforcement agencies throughout the United States.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3708

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

Feb 23, 2023 - Proposition  57 (2016) Caused Temporary Increases in PRCS Population. When a policy change causes people to be released from prison earlier than otherwise, it causes a temporary increase in the PRCS and parole populations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4703

The 2017-18 Budget: Trial Courts and the County Office of Education General Fund Offset

Feb 16, 2017 - For example, excess property taxes collected in 2015-16 offset the state ’s General Fund support to trial courts in 2016-17. In 2015-16, preliminary estimates show that five COEs had excess taxes totaling $37 million to offset General Fund support to trial courts in 2016-17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3567

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - This could partly explain why the amount distributed to taskforces did not decline as much compared to other law enforcement agencies prior to 2016. Additionally, the amount distributed to taskforces increased slightly between 2016 and 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128

The 2016-17 Budget: Fiscal Impacts of Proposition 47

Feb 12, 2016 - Estimated SNSF Deposit in 2015–16 Based on its estimates of the savings and costs resulting from the implementation of Proposition  47, the administration currently estimates that $29.3  million from the General Fund would be deposited into the SNSF on July 31, 2016 for expenditure in 2016 –17 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3352

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