The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - Finally, DOJ manages various databases, including the statewide criminal history database. Spending Proposed for 2026-27. As shown in Figure  1, the Governor ’s budget proposes $1.3  billion to support DOJ operations in 2026-27 —a decrease of $13  million (or 1  percent) from the revised amount for 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

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

Oct 24, 2025 - Finally, the budget includes various capital outlay adjustments. This includes the following: $36.4  million one-time General Fund to support four capital outlay projects. This amount consists of $31.3  million for pre-construction activities for four projects (Butte Juvenile Hall, Fresno, San Luis Obispo, and Solano) and $5  million for construction for one project (Butte Juvenile Hall).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

The 2023-24 Budget: Increased Federal Authority For State Crisis Intervention Program

Feb 22, 2023 - Proposition  63 Firearm Relinquishment Process Proposition  63, approved by voters in 2016, created a new court process to ensure that people convicted of criminal offenses that prohibit them from owning firearms relinquish them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4697

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - Additionally, this transfer requirement will generally only leave monies in the LDF that were pending allocation to specific entities or narrowly defined purposes, as well as funds tied to cases awaiting final resolution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

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

Sep 26, 2022 - The budget includes $97.6 million General Fund in 2022-23 and $7.8 million in 2023-24 and ongoing to install and operate fixed video surveillance cameras at ten prisons and deploy body-worn cameras on officers at four prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - This project is an immediate need project (highest ‑priority category) that would replace four vacant, outdated, and unsafe facilities. Additionally, the identified scope and cost of the project seem  reasonable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor's Proposals for CDCR Operations

Feb 8, 2022 - CSU Los Angeles (CSULA) started offering courses in 2016 at California State Prison, Los Angeles (LAC) and became the first university through its Prison Graduation Initiative to graduate 25 inmates with a Communications bachelor ’s degree in the fall of 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4517

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 6, 2021 - Finally, the budget includes $53.5  million for increased trial court and appellate court facility maintenance, utility, and lease costs. The budget also includes spending for capital outlay projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Finally, a Receiver can increase state costs. At a minimum, the state will continue to incur the cost to maintain the Office of the Receiver —currently $8.2  million annually —until the state exits Receivership.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

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

Oct 16, 2023 - The final step of the process requires cases to be referred to the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) within the Department of General Services for a final decision made by OAH administrative law judges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805