The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - However, the provided funding was unallocated and subject to Judicial Council ’s discretion. b Does not include funding provided specifically for increased trial court health and retirement benefits as the state covers such costs in full.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - Please see the “New and Ongoing Efforts to Achieve Efficiencies ” section of our post, The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions , for more information on Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - The judicial branch currently receives about $80  million annually —$65  million from the SCFCF and $15.4  million from the General Fund —for use at Judicial Council ’s discretion. Judicial Council maintains a list of modification projects and categorizes them into one of six priority categories (such as “immediately or potentially critical ” or “beyond rated life but serviceable ”).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Oct 10, 2023 - As we discuss in the subsequent section, the original S B  678 formula was modified to account for the expected impacts of these sentencing changes. 2011 Public Safety Realignment Reduced Eligibility for Prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4806

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Receiverships are typically used as a last resort by courts b ecause high thresholds must be met for them to be established, such as demonstrating that there is a grave and immediate harm to the plaintiffs, that the use of less extreme remedies have been exhausted, and that a Receiver is the least intrusive means necessary to correct the violations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2021-22 Budget: Trial Court Operations Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget required Judicial Council conduct by November 2020 a cost ‑benefit analysis of self ‑help services that assessed the costs and benefits of each method by which self ‑help services are provided, including the impacts of such services on trial court operations, and how cost ‑effectiveness may vary across case types by delivery method.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4362

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 22, 2020 - The budget includes a $93.3  million reduction in General Fund support for trial court operations in 2020 ‑21 in order to reflect the availability of property tax revenue in accordance with Control Section 15.45 and Section 2578 of the Education Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4288

The 2022-23 Budget: Judicial Branch Proposals

Feb 3, 2022 - The primary approaches used in recent years  include: Ongoing IMF Funding Allocated by Judicial  Council. As noted earlier in the “IMF ” section of this brief, the IMF is a special fund with several dedicated revenue sources that is used to support various judicial branch activities, including technology modernization projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4513

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 17, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Judiciary and Criminal Justice Total $224.0 In addition, the budget includes a $62.7  million reduction in General Fund support for trial court operations in 2019-20 in order to reflect the availability of property tax revenue in accordance with Control Section 15.45 and Section 2578 of the Education Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4097

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

Jun 12, 2025 - In this section, we discuss several of these changes and the ways in which they might reduce retail theft. Figure  6 provides a summary of the changes. While some of these changes have been in effect for a few years, several were only recently enacted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055