The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch $31 0.6% Trial Courts Report $485  Million in Reserves at End of 2022 ‑23. Trial courts have a limited ability to keep and carry over any unspent funds (also known as “reserves ”) from one fiscal year to the next.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - However, beginning in 2022-23, expenditures began outpacing revenues, shrinking the fund balance. The Governor ’s budget estimates that the DROS Special Account will be insolvent in 2026-27 if no action is taken.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, the California Department of Health Care Access and Information in 2022 estimated that there would be a shortage of psychiatrists and behavioral health providers in all 58 California counties by 2025, with 27 prisons located in counties experiencing high or severe shortages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - Other major General Fund adjustments include: $357.8  million reappropriation of unspent funds from the 2022-23 and 2023-24 budgets to 2024-25 to pay for deficits in CDCR ’s general security program and medical care programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

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

Feb 17, 2022 - Of  this amount, homicide firearm deaths increased from 1,246  deaths in 2019 to 1,731  deaths in 2020 —an increase of 485  deaths (or 39  percent). In  contrast, while there  are slight fluctuations over the past decade, suicide firearm deaths were roughly the same in 2019 (1,586 deaths) and 2020 (1,552 deaths).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - DOJ Required to Report in 2022 on Potential Funding Options Other Than General Fund. The  2021 ‑22 budget package required DOJ to provide a report by March  10, 2022 that identified various options —other than the General Fund —to support BFS annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

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

Jun 12, 2025 - The 2022 ‑23 Budget Act provided $85  million annually for three years to the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) to support competitive grants for local law enforcement to combat organized retail, motor vehicle, and cargo theft.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - As shown in the figure, the prison population is projected to decrease by about 3,200 (3  percent) from 96,100 in 2022-23 to 92,900 in 2023-24. The parole population is projected to decrease by about 2,000 (5  percent) from 39,200 in 2022-23 to 37,200 in 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

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

Sep 26, 2022 - The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2022-23 California Spending Plan Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2022-23 budget provides $18.7 billion from the General Fund for judicial and criminal justice programs, including support for program operations and capital outlay projects, as shown in Figure 1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - In 2022, Unit  6 members earned $547.8  million in overtime payments and $2.2  billion in gross regular pay. This means that overtime payments in 2022 were equivalent to roughly 24  percent of gross regular pay for Unit  6 members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800