Judicial Branch Actions Responding to COVID-19

May 6, 2020 - For example, access to Los Angeles court facilities is generally restricted to judges, court staff, individuals involved in cases, witnesses, attorneys, and authorized persons (such as news reporters).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4227

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The plan today is known as Savings Plus. Through Savings Plus, employees can open a 401(k) and/or a 457(b) account and can choose to make contributions on a pre-tax or post-tax basis to these accounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

2016 Data on Crime in California

Oct 17, 2017 - Today ’s crime rates remain well below historical levels. As shown in Figure  2, California has experienced a significant decline in the property crime rate since 1980 and in the violent crime rate since 1992.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3708

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The underlying budget dynamics today are particularly challenging for three reasons. First, revenues have not caught up with expenditures. Second, under our estimates, expenditure growth exceeds estimated revenue growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Jan 13, 2023 - (That is, in our view, these costs would not have occurred absent legislative action and as a result do not contribute to the budget problem the Legislature faces today.) Comparison to LAO November Outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

State Correctional Spending Increased Despite Significant Population Reductions

Feb 4, 2020 - However, if the inmate population did not decrease and the state complied exclusively by expanding prison capacity, CDCR spending would be significantly higher than it is today. This is because the state would have had to finance the construction of several new prisons or contract for tens of thousands of prison beds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4145

Improving California’s Prison Inmate Classification System

May 2, 2019 - For example, the average inmate today may be less likely to engage in misconduct due to reduced overcrowding but gang affiliated inmates may be more likely to engage in misconduct today due to the greater presence of gang leaders in general population environments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4023

The 2020-21 Budget: Effectively Managing State Prison Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2020 - This is generally because correctional policies over the 150 year span when the prisons were built reflected either less emphasis on rehabilitation or emphasis on different types of rehabilitation relative to today.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4186

The 2022-23 Budget: Judicial Branch Proposals

Feb 3, 2022 - The IMF continues to support this program today. Governor ’s Proposal The Governor ’s budget proposes provisional budget language authorizing the Director of the Department of Finance to transfer additional General Fund support to the IMF if revenues are lower than expected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4513

The 2018-19 Budget: Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 27, 2018 - While CalFire was not able to provide information on the ratio of applicants to position openings in time for our analysis, some news outlets have reported only a few percent of applicants being hired.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3762