The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - A large portion of the General Fund support is used to support the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) enforcement teams, which seize firearms from people prohibited from owning or possessing them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, in court documents, CDCR estimated that the staff fill rate for ICF and APP beds in June would have been 98  percent for psychiatrists (instead of 81  percent), 73  percent for psychologists (instead of 52  percent), 105  percent for social workers (instead of 82  percent), and 127  percent for recreational therapists (instead of 101  percent) had all 249  inpatient beds been deactivated that month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - 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

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - CAC = California Arts Council; CalVet = California Department of Veterans Affairs; CDE = California Department of Education; CDFA = California Department of Food and Agriculture; CDI = California Department of Insurance; CDT = California Department of Technology; SOC = Security Operations Center; IT = information technology; CMD = California Military Department; CPUC = California Public Utilities
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432/6

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - Most of the General Fund is used to support the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) enforcement teams, which seize firearms from individuals prohibited from owning or possessing them. This has been the case since 2019 ‑20 when the budget package shifted full support of these teams over to the General  Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Digital Library Subscription. The state provides $500,000 ongoing funding for digital library subscriptions for incarcerated students at all CDCR prisons. Students have access to research databases, e ‑journals, magazine subscriptions, peer ‑reviewed articles, and e ‑books that can be used to complete course  assignments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Public Safety Package

Feb 17, 2022 - As previously discussed, APPS identified nearly 23,600 armed and prohibited persons as of January 2021. The 2021 ‑22 budget provided $10  million one ‑time General Fund to DOJ ’s Gun  Violence Reduction Program for competitive grants to county sheriff ’s departments to reduce the number of armed and prohibited persons by seizing firearms and ammunition from them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - This additional time could be needed for various reasons, including to ensure that all participants have the ability to be heard (which could simply require more time and resources) or to address conflicting interpretations or app lication of the language (which could be resolved legislatively or through statewide Judicial Council guidance).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 6, 2021 - . $16.5  million one-time General Fund to county law libraries to backfill the decline in civil filing fees that support such libraries. $12.3  million General Fund in 2021 ‑22 (increasing to $58.4  million annually by 2024 ‑25) to expand statewide the use of an online adjudication tool (including an ability to pay component) and backfill resulting reductions in criminal fine and fee revenue for the judicial branch.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460

The 2021-22 Budget: Trial Court Operations Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - To help self ‑represented individuals access the court system, the judicial branch offers or partners with other legal stakeholders (such as county law libraries or the State Bar) to provide various services and programs —such as legal aid and in ‑person self ‑help centers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4362