The 2023-24 Budget: Racial and Identity Profiling Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - While the full extent of how such da ta is used is unclear, there are clear examples where it has been used to generate research to further public discourse on racial and identity profiling. For example, the Public Policy Institute of California published reports on racial disparities in law enforcement stops in October 2021 and on racial disparities in traffic stops in October 2022 —both of which used this data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4715

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

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 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

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

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

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 2017-18 Budget: Department of Justice

Jan 31, 2017 - This amount includes (1) $9  million in revenues from 2016 ‑17 that were deposited after the enactment of Proposition  56 in November 2016 and (2) $36  million in revenues for 2017 ‑18. Of the $45  million total, the budget provides $7.5  million to enforce tobacco-related laws and $37.5  million to allocate to local law enforcement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3543

The 2017-18 Budget: Trial Court Security Funding for Counties

Jan 25, 2017 - Of the additional funds provided, DOF allocated $713,000 in 2014 ‑15, $1.9  million in 2015 ‑16, and currently estimates the allocation of about $2.7  million to qualifying counties in 2016 ‑17. Governor ’s Proposal The Governor ’s budget for 2017 ‑18 includes $7  million in General Fund support for increased trial court security costs resulting from the construction of new courthouses —the same amount that was provided in 2016 ‑17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3538