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

Apr 11, 2025 - Recommendations Below, we recommend changes to the Governor ’s proposed SB  678 grant formula that would help address the issues we identified above. These changes would result in a system that would better achieve the stated goals of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Recommendations Approve Resources to Activate New Learning Center and Contract With AJCC. We recommend that the Legislature approve the portions of the request to activate the new Learning Center and contract with AJCC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 26, 2025 - Recommendation Direct Administration to Address Flaws in Proposition  47 Savings Estimate in the May Revision. We recommend that the Legislature direct the administration in spring budget hearings to address the flaws with its methodology for estimating the savings attributable to Proposition  47 in the May Revision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Recommendations Legislature Could Improve Policies in Several Ways. In this section, we make several recommendations aimed at addressing the problems and missed opportunities we have identified with CCC education at state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - Recommendations Consider Shifting to Lease Revenue Bonds. Ultimately, the Legislature ’s financing approach will depend on how it weighs support for short-term budget priorities against reducing long-term budget obligations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget provides $3.3  million General Fund in 2024-25 (increasing to $7.7  million in 2025-26 and ongoing) for BSCC to establish a new division that will review investigations of deaths that occur in local correctional facilities and make recommendations to such facilities as required by Chapter  306 of 2023 (SB  519, Atkins).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924