The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System [Publication Details]

Feb 27, 2026 - This brief summarizes the history, costs, and current status of the state’s effort to deploy a Next Generation 911 system and assesses the administration’s proposal to abandon the existing regional approach in favor of a statewide model. It also offers recommendations regarding legislative oversight of this project and the long-term governance of the state’s 911 system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5145

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - This brief summarizes the history, costs, and current status of the state’s effort to deploy a Next Generation 911 system and assesses the administration’s proposal to abandon the existing regional approach in favor of a statewide model. It also offers recommendations regarding legislative oversight of this project and the long-term governance of the state’s 911 system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - As previously discussed, the state has a history of assuming ambitious savings targets and failing to achieve them. This causes the state to lose valuable time that could have been spent developing and implementing other cost reductions strategies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Los Angeles' Bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics

Nov 10, 2016 - While the Los Angeles bid aims to minimize financial and execution risks, history tells us that there may be no way to completely eliminate these sorts of risks for a “ mega –event ” like the Olympics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3506

Main Types of Disasters and Associated Trends

Jan 10, 2019 - Of particular no te, the state experienced the largest and most destructive fires in its history in 2018 —the Mendocino Complex Fire, which burned over 400,000 acres, and the Camp Fire in Butte County, which destroyed over 18,000 structures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3918

Update on Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympics

Mar 23, 2017 - In SB 1465 (de Le ón) —the 2016 legislation allowing the Governor to agree to a backup financial guarantee for the Games —it was envisioned that any Games profit would be devoted to legacy programs for youth and other Californians.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3622

The 2020-21 Budget: Reinventing the Department of Business Oversight

Feb 26, 2020 - However, if the Legislature wanted DOJ to more actively pursue financial product and service providers for UDAAP violations, it could direct the department to do so and provide it with resources de dicated to such work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4181

The 2020 Census: Potential Impacts on California

Dec 13, 2018 - The nearby box describes the history of the inclusion of a citizenship question in the Census. History of the Census Questionnaire and Citizenship Question History of the Census Questionnaires. The Census has been conducted every decade since 1790.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3909

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - This pattern has been particularly notable in the last few years, which have seen some of the worst wildfires in the state ’s recorded history. For example, the 2018 wildfire season included the Camp Fire in Butte County, which became the single most damaging wildfire in state history with nearly 19,000  structures destroyed and 85 fatalities, including the near ‑total destruction of the town of Paradise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575