The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - Its internal committees acted in January to recommend Judicial Council restore the funding by revising the $97  million reduction downward to a $55  million reduction. This revised reduction was recommended to be allocated to the trial courts using the workload formula and methodology that was used for the $97  million reduction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

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

Feb 22, 2024 - For  example,  the 2023 ‑24 Budget Act provided $97  million one ‑time from the General Fund for CDCR ’s COVID ‑19 response, of which the department estimates it will spend about  $54  million. Governor’s Proposal $38  Million Ongoing for COVID ‑19 Health Care Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - We note that, in 2019 ‑20, 97  percent of felony cases were resolved prior to trial. Of this amount, 80  percent were guilty pleas. Similarly, 99  percent of misdemeanors were resolved prior to trial over the same time period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623