The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - Concerns With DROS Special Account Insolvency Led to Greater Use of General Fund … As shown in Figure  2, support for BOF followed a fee-based funding structure through 2018-19, with all BOF costs supported by special funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - Specifically, the 2018 ‑19 budget included $1.3  billion in lease revenue bond authority backed by the General Fund —rather than the SCFCF —to finance ten previously planned projects. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Figure 8 Receiver ’s Action Plan Outlines Goals and Actions to Improve Mental Health Care Goal 1 Improve Mental Health Care Delivery Through Culture Change and Effective Management Selected Actions Implement a comprehensive communications strategy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - As discussed in the “Inpatient Mental Health Beds ” section in our brief The 2025‑26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and shown in Figure 8, CDCR is operating 713 inpatient beds in excess of the amount projected to be necessary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

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

Jun 12, 2025 - This  is known as the “clearance rate. ” As shown in Figure  4 , California ’s clearance rate for property crimes declined over the past decade from about 14  percent of reported crimes cleared in 2014 to about 8  percent in 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - The 2018 ‑19 budget included $3.2  million General Fund in 2018 ‑19, declining to $709,000 annually beginning in 2020 ‑21, to construct and maintain this web portal. County Law Libraries. To address declines in the amount of civil filing fee revenues available to support county law libraries, four budgets have included one-time General Fund assistance to help maintain service levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - As shown in Figure  8 , spending per arrest in 2018 ‑19 varies across counties, with greater variance in per arrest spending on district attorney offices as compared to indigent defense. This means that the magnitude of the difference in spending on district attorney offices and indigent defense can be much greater in certain counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

The 2021-22 Budget: Trial Court Operations Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - The Governor ’s budget estimates that the backfill for all the funds will total $7. 9  m illion in 2020 ‑21 and will reach $55. 8  m illion in 2024 ‑25. Under the proposal, the exact of amount of this backfill would be adjusted annually to address whatever the actual loss in revenue is determined to be.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4362

Improving Parolee Substance Use Disorder Treatment Through Medi-Cal

Apr 14, 2021 - For example, CDCR reported serving about 8, 000 p arolees at a cost of roughly $8, 300 p er parolee in 2017 ‑18. In comparison, CDCR reported serving about 15, 000 p arolees at a cost of roughly $5, 600 p er participant in 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4411

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - Subject to Legislative Appropriation $50.0 CDE Program or activities (such as physical security improvements and school ‑based mental health services) addressing risk factors for gun violence affecting K ‑12 students. 3 15.0 JC Court ‑based firearm relinquishment grant program to facilitate removal of firearms and ammunition from individuals who become prohibited from owning or possessing them
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970