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

Feb 26, 2025 - …Causing Proposition  47 Savings to Be Likely Underestimated. By overestimating the impact of Proposition  36, the administration underestimates the remaining prison population reduction still attributable to Proposition  47.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - CDCR ’s estimate assumes that the same number of people who were committed to prison for drug possession prior to Proposition  47 would again be committed to prison under Proposition  36. However, this is not plausible for two primary reasons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - These include the 2011 public safety realignment, which created the other forms of county felony supervision, among other changes, and Proposition  47 (2014), which reduced various drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031