The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Funds Initiatives to Improve Coordination in Workforce Development. The 2025-26 budget includes funding for two initiatives, one in the LWDA and one in the Government Operations Agency (GovOps), to improve coordination between the state ’s workforce development and education agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Dynamic security is an approach to security that promotes positive relationships between staff and incarcerated people through purposeful activities and professional, positive, and respectful  communication.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - We recommend requiring BSCC, which is responsible for promoting effective state and local corrections efforts, to have an oversight role of the program. Specifically, BSCC would be required to audit counties to ensure compliance with the selected evidence-based practices and to ensure outcomes at the local level are regularly evaluated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - However, the flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data is lacking. We will continue to monitor Proposition  36 implementation and the prison population and make recommendations based on the updated information available at the May Revision, including the administration ’s revised estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991