The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - Of the total $70.4  million provided to BOF in 2025-26, $36.2  million (or 51  percent) was from the General Fund and $34.2  million (or 49  percent) was from various special funds. 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 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

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 2023-24 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training—Office of Administrative Hearing Costs

Feb 13, 2023 - Further, as of January 2023, POST had filled nearly half of the 51 positions across its four Decertification Unit bureaus that are responsible for conducting the decertification investigations, prosecutions, and administrative proceedings against peace officers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4677

The 2022-23 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Jan 31, 2022 - The positions for the new division include 51 decertification staff, 20 certification staff, 14 legal staff, 16 intake and disposition staff, 4 support staff, and a Deputy Director position to oversee the new division.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4507

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

May 17, 2021 - General Fund Condition Excluding Policy Choices, Revenues Higher by $51  Billion Compared to Governor ’s Budget. Reflecting very strong cash collections in recent months, the May Revision adjusts 2020 ‑21 revenues (and transfers) up by $26.8  billion to $182  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 6, 2021 - In addition, the budget includes $51  million General Fund (increasing annually to $78  million by 2024 ‑25) for COVID-19 workers ’ compensation claims related to Chapter  85 of 2020 (SB  1159, Hill).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460

The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 16, 2023 - The Governor proposes a net decrease of $28.6  million in 2022 ‑23 and $51  million in 2023 ‑24 for ISUDTP. These changes are the net effect of (1)  various population ‑driven adjustments based on existing methodologies and (2)  a proposed increase in funding for toxicology testing based on a newly proposed methodology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686