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

Feb 19, 2025 - Even if revenues perform better than expected, it is still unlikely that revenues will exceed $100  million. Under this scenario, CalVIP would receive its full allocation, but CDE would receive only some funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

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

Jun 12, 2025 - As shown in Figure  3 , despite increases over the last decade, the retail theft rate remains well below historical highs that occurred in the 1980s. Specifically, between 1985 and 2023, the retail theft rate declined by 54  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

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

Feb 22, 2024 - As shown in Figure  2 , the average daily prison population is projected to be 91,700 in 2024 ‑25, a decrease of about 2,500  people (3  percent) from the estimated current ‑year level. The average daily parole population is projected to be 35,500 in 2024 ‑25, a decrease of 1,000 people (3  percent) from the estimated current ‑year level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

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 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - These projects were categorized into five groups —and ranked within each group —in the following descending priority order: 18 immediate need projects ($2.3  billion), 29 critical need projects ($7.9  billion), 15 high need projects ($1.3  billion), 9 medium need projects ($1.6  billion), and 9 low need projects ($100  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - (On a technical basis, under the administration ’s estimates, we estimate the balance of the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties [SFEU] would be about $3  billion before the Governor ’s proposals.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - Governor ’s Proposal Additional Up to $100  Million Loan From LDF to General Fund. The Governor ’s 2024-25 budget proposes budget provisional language allowing DOF to authorize an additional, up to $100  million no-interest loan from the LDF to the General Fund subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - Second, the EAF Program provides grants to more than 100 legal services providers (such as Legal Aid) across the state to support legal services or assistance to low-income or self-represented people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 26, 2022 - The budget package requires civil assessment revenues (about $100 million annually) be deposited into the state General Fund instead of the Trial Court Trust Fund. Th e budget package also changed state law to reduce the amount of civil assessment that could be imposed from a maximum of $300 to a maximum of $100.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Of these students, 418 (2.7  percent) had already earned 100 or more CCC units. Just over 100 of these students had already accumulated 150 or more units. Furthermore, of the 15,500  incarcerated CCC students enrolled in 2022 ‑23, 905 (5.8  percent) already had earned an associate degree in a prior year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913