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

Apr 11, 2025 - This is $10.4  million (8.9  percent) more than the 2024-25 amount. Figure  2 provides an example of how a county grant award would be calculated. New Methodology for Calculating State Savings Per Person Diverted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 26, 2025 - This means that the $88.3  million in state savings estimated to occur in 2024-25 and reflected in the 2025-26 Governor ’s budget as a transfer from the General Fund to the SNSF is likely underestimated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - The Governor ’s budget reflects adjustments to 2024 ‑25 spending, largely from the General Fund, that result in a net increase of $51  million. The current ‑year net increase in costs is primarily due to both a higher total prison population and an increase in the portion of the population with high health care needs relative to what was assumed in the 2024 ‑25  Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2024-25 California Spending Plan Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2024-25 budget provides $17.8  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/4924

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice [Publication Details]

Sep 10, 2024 - The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4924

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 [Publication Details]

Feb 26, 2025 - In this post, we assess the administration’s estimate of the level of spending required by Proposition 47 (2014), which reduced punishment for various crimes and requires the resulting state savings be spent on certain grant programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4991

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - The 2021 ‑22 state budget provided $18  million ongoing funding and an additional $5  million one ‑time funding to distribute 37,000 laptops at state prisons by 2024. Laptops are to be distributed in phases across all prisons, with every student participating in postsecondary education each term eligible for a computer, along with people participating in other rehabilitative programming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913