The 2026-27 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 23, 2026 - Figure 1 Administration Projects Decrease in Proposition 47 Savings Due to Proposition 36 2023 ‑24
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5108

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - For example, the 2023-24 budget package included $19.3  million in 2023-24 (decreasing to $6  million annually beginning in 2026-27) —mostly from the DROS Special Account —for the implementation of five pieces of enacted legislation, increased or new baseline workload, and the continuation of FITSM.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Beginning in April 2023, fines accrued for each of five key classifications (psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, recreational therapists, and medical assistants) that did not achieve a 90 percent fill rate .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

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

Oct 24, 2025 - The budget provides Judicial Council with discretion in allocating the funding, but requires that at least half of the funding be allocated based on each trial court ’s share of 2023-24 non-traffic criminal filings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - According to 2023 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California is the highest paying state for psychologists with the average hourly wage at $64 per hour, whereas psychologists nationwide earned a median of $53 per hour (21  percent less).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

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

Jun 12, 2025 - Subsequently, retail theft rebounded between 2021 and 2023. Over the entire ten ‑year period —2014 to 2023 —reported retail theft increased by about 11  percent, though some counties experienced differing trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - Concerns With Legislative Oversight of LDF Prior to 2023-24. Prior to changes made in the 2023-24 budget package described below, the Legislature had concerns with the level of oversight it had of the LDF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - As  shown in Figure  3 , the amount of criminal fine and fee revenue deposited into the DNA Identification Fund has steadily declined from a peak of $69  million in 2013 ‑14 to $38  million in 2023 ‑24 (a decline of 45  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2023-24 California Spending Plan Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2023-24 budget provides $18.6  billion from the General Fund for judicial and criminal justice programs, including support for program operations and capital outlay projects, as shown in Figure  1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - CDCR arrived at this estimate by adding the average expenditures on testing for staff between April 2023 and September 2023 and the prison population between April 2023 and August 2023 and assuming that the department would continue spending at that monthly rate in 2024‑25 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852