The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - Assessment No Concerns With Requested Amounts … As discussed in our January budget publication, The 2026‑27 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Budget , the state faces serious multiyear deficits that will need to be addressed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - This is especially critical given the multiyear deficits facing the state that leave no capacity for new ongoing commitments, meaning any additional General Fund provided for firearms regulation would likely require reduced spending for other existing state programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

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

Feb 23, 2026 - CDCR could also identify prisons that face the greatest staffing challenges and utilize a greater share of remote providers at those facilities. The cost of such changes
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, people working remotely likely do not face the same level of safety concerns that workers on site may experience when walking through a prison and interacting with various incarcerated people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - It would be reasonable to consider redirecting this funding to such projects or pressing deferred maintenance needs to address unsafe conditions faced by current staff and court users in such facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2026 - For over three decades, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has faced litigation for providing unconstitutional levels of prison mental health care, in part due to chronic vacancies among mental health staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5134

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Both our office and the administration project that the state faces a manageable budget problem this year. The Governor addresses the budget problem primarily with spending ‑related solutions, as shown in the figure below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2022-23 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Jan 31, 2022 - POST Faces Significant S B   2 Implementation Challenges. POST will likely face significant challenges implementing S B  2 , primarily due to the fact that the commission ’s staffing will need to roughly double by January 1, 2023 —only six months after receiving funding in the budget if the Governor ’s proposal is approved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4507

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s Criminal Fine and Fee Proposals

Mar 3, 2017 - DNA Identification Fund Facing Solvency Concerns The DNA Identification Fund, which primarily supports the Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Forensic Services, has been structurally imbalanced since 2010 ‑11 and would likely be facing insolvency in the current year absent planned expenditure reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3600

Providing Constitutional and Cost-Effective Inmate Medical Care [Publication Details]

Apr 19, 2012 - In this report, we (1) provide a status report on the Receiver’s actions, (2) describe how these actions have impacted inmate medical care spending and outcomes, (3) discuss the experiences of other states that have faced problems similar to California’s in delivering inmate medical care, and (4) provide recommendations for delivering a constitutional level of inmate medical care in the most cost-effective manner as possible in the long run.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2618