The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Inmate Meal Costs [Publication Details]

Feb 2, 2021 - This publication provides our analysis of the Governor’s 2021-22 January budget proposal to support inmate meal costs with a $7.5 million General Fund augmentation as well as savings from vacant plant operations positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4333

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - We expect the cost of implementing this option would be largely covered by the cost of expanding tele ‑mental health discussed above. Require CDCR Report on the Feasibility of Concentrating Mental Health Population in Prisons That Are Easier to Staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - Such an action would ensure that existing BOF operations are maintained while the Legislature weighs its options for how to support firearm-related workload moving forward. These options would be informed by the recommended framework we discuss in more detail in the following section.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Other Options Could Augment Ability of Tele ‑Mental Health to Help Address Staffing Challenges by Increasing Pool of Providers. As discussed in Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health , we find that two other options could increase the impact of tele‑mental health and expand the pool of mental health providers that CDCR can draw from.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - Other Potential Alternative BFS Funding Options Identified by DOJ Raise Concerns. In our review of DOJ ’s March  2022 report, we identified various concerns about the viability of the other potential funding options identified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Justice Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - One of the options was required to include sharing costs with local agencies. As such, the alternative options identified by DOJ in its forthcoming report can be used to inform the specifics of a new funding structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4527

The California State Bar: Assessment of Proposed Disciplinary Case Processing Standards

Jan 6, 2023 - For example, conversations with State Bar staff indicated that it could sometimes take more than 60 days for banks to provide documents that are subpoenaed to investigate cases that involve client trust accounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4655

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

Feb 17, 2022 - Options for Addressing Crime‑Related Public Safety Goals In this section, we provide various options that the Legislature could take to the extent it prioritizes addressing specific crime ‑related public safety goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

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

Oct 24, 2025 - The budget provides two General Fund augmentations for facility repair and improvement projects at various prisons: (1) $37.3  million in 2025-26 and $44.2  million annually in 2026-27 and 2027-28 to replace fire alarm systems at Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran and California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville as well as fund fire watch costs at various prisons with inadequate fire
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - Specifically, in a 2016 report examining the Los Angeles area, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco —in partnership with several universities and research organizations —found that the median net worth of U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623