The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - This commitment effectively backfilled the $1.4  billion transferred from the SCFCF to the General Fund to help address the state ’s budget condition between 2009 ‑10 and 2017 ‑18. The 2021 ‑22 budget formally shifted support for the construction of any future courthouses to the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2024-25 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 20, 2024 - Since implementation of Proposition  57 began in 2017, the prison population has declined by about 37,500 people (29  percent) —from 131,300 on June 30, 2017 to 93,700 as of January 31, 2024. We note that while Proposition  57 has been a significant driver of this decline, various other sentencing changes have also contributed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4849

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Beginning in 2018, Chapter  681 of 2017 (SB  395, Lara) required that arrested youths age 15 and younger be provided a consultation with legal counsel before they may waive their Miranda rights or be interrogated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2023-24 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 23, 2023 - Since implementation of Proposition  57 began in 2017, the prison population has declined by about 35,700 people (27  percent) —from 131,300 on June 30, 2017 to 95,600 as of February 1, 2023. We note that, while Proposition  57 has been a significant driver of this decline, various other sentencing changes have also contributed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4703

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The valuation does not provide separate normal costs for the benefit for employee hired before 2017 versus those hired after 2017; however, the normal cost for the benefit earned by new employees certainly is lower than the normal cost for the benefit earned by employees hired before 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Overview and Update on the Prison Receivership

Nov 8, 2023 - Development of the EHRS began in 2013 and was first implemented statewide in 2017, with additional improvements to the system in later years. The has state dedicated a total of about $400 million to the project including the addition of functionality after completion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4813

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - In both 2017 and 2018, state asset forfeiture distributions declined by about 10  p ercent. Similarly, federal asset forfeiture distributions declined by 36  p ercent from 2016 t o 2017 —from $88. 5  m illion to $ 57  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128

The 2023-24 Budget: Racial and Identity Profiling Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - This amount consists of $25.5  million for the initial claiming period between 2017-18 through 2019-20, $11.8  million for 2020-21, and $13.2  million for 2021-22. The Governor ’s budget also includes $16.5  million ongoing General Fund to support such costs in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4715

The California State Bar: Assessment of Proposed Disciplinary Case Processing Standards

Jan 6, 2023 - For example, as shown in Figure  11 , the average amount of time needed to file cases in the SBC increased by 41  percent between 2017 ‑18 (466 days) and 2021 ‑22 (658  days), and the median amount of time increased by 47  percent between 2017 ‑18 (401  days) and 2021 ‑22 (591 days).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4655

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

Oct 16, 2023 - This reduces the amount for this workload (originally provided as part of the 2017-18 budget package) to $3.5  million. The budget also reflects the internal redirection of $13.8  million ongoing General Fund —$6.2  million from the Civil Law subdivision and $7.6  million from the California Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) —to support a new Office of General Counsel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805