Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Consider Monitoring State Data Center Rate Reassessment Process for IT Services. Another option the Legislature could consider is to monitor the progress of the rate reassessment process for the State Data Center that is currently underway to verify that IT services hosted by the State Data Center will be comparable both in levels of service and price to major private vendors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - A breakdown of the funding and positions by entity is provided later in the post. d The full description for the Student Aid Commission proposal is “Initiate a comprehensive program to reform, improve and enhance the California Student Aid Commission ’s (Commission) Information Technology, Cybersecurity, and Data Privacy programs through staff additions, software implementation,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - Will the state be able to undertake periodic, independent security audits of the system and all of its components? If security and privacy protections need to be upgraded or added on later, who will p ay for these improvements?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - Fraud and Data Analytics This project seeks to enhance the information security of the department ’s programs and prevent fraud through (among other enhancements) the deployment of tools to detect and mitigate cyberattacks, the integration of the department ’s event logging and management solution into EDDNext IT projects and systems, and the use of real ‑time identity proofing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 22, 2022 - CDT, however, suggests that some of the benefits of State Data Center services (such as continuous information security and service desk support) and other differences between state ‑hosted and vendor ‑hosted services make direct rate comparison difficult.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4552

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - A different data source —the state Position Vacancy Report , which calculates the average annual vacancy rate across all types of staff in the department excluding temporary positions—reports an even higher vacancy rate: 13.6 percent as of 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Proposals

Feb 20, 2022 - The three proposed capital outlay projects (the SOC modification, headquarters lobby security enhancement, and headquarters security checkpoint enhancement projects) and two related support proposals (headquarters modernization project support and headquarters security project support) appear reasonable as they would continue projects that have been previously approved by the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4551

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - These reforms included changes to data collection and reporting and the transfer of program oversight from the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) to the Department of General Services (DGS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget rejects a Governor ’s proposal to authorize DCC to seal (that is, secure and prevent entry) a building or premises occupied by an unlicensed person in connection with illicit commercial cannabis activity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to conduct a detailed analysis of financial data for hospitals across the state to identify how different hospital payment models create incentives for hospitals. This work would be expected to serve as a basis for developing recommendations to reduce state costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156