The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - A large portion of the General Fund support is used to support the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) enforcement teams, which seize firearms from people prohibited from owning or possessing them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, in court documents, CDCR estimated that the staff fill rate for ICF and APP beds in June would have been 98  percent for psychiatrists (instead of 81  percent), 73  percent for psychologists (instead of 52  percent), 105  percent for social workers (instead of 82  percent), and 127  percent for recreational therapists (instead of 101  percent) had all 249  inpatient beds been deactivated that month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - Any unaddressed projects essentially add to the judicial branch ’s deferred maintenance list. In recent years, some one ‑time funding has been also provided from the General Fund to support specific, larger facility modification projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Add Support Staff and Equipment to Expand Tele ‑Mental Health. The Governor ’s proposal includes $8.9  million General Fund in the budget year, growing to $13.5  million in 2027 ‑28 and declining to $12.8  million in 2028 ‑29 and ongoing to add support staff and equipment to facilitate the conversion of the on ‑site positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - Most of the General Fund is used to support the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) enforcement teams, which seize firearms from individuals prohibited from owning or possessing them. This has been the case since 2019 ‑20 when the budget package shifted full support of these teams over to the General  Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

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

Feb 17, 2022 - As previously discussed, APPS identified nearly 23,600 armed and prohibited persons as of January 2021. The 2021 ‑22 budget provided $10  million one ‑time General Fund to DOJ ’s Gun  Violence Reduction Program for competitive grants to county sheriff ’s departments to reduce the number of armed and prohibited persons by seizing firearms and ammunition from them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - This additional time could be needed for various reasons, including to ensure that all participants have the ability to be heard (which could simply require more time and resources) or to address conflicting interpretations or app lication of the language (which could be resolved legislatively or through statewide Judicial Council guidance).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Other factors also add uncertainty. For example, the number of interrogations may fluctuate based on local policing decisions or changes in the number of youth arrests. Furthermore, statewide costs could be affected by other factors that remain uncertain, such as ch anges in the number of counties that choose to file reimbursable claims and the extent to which counties include law enforcement or indirect costs in their claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - After 2025 ‑26, these proposals would add about $300 million in ongoing spending. Some of the largest spending augmentations proposed include: (1) $60  million to provide additional grants under the Cal Competes program; (2)  the intent to partially restore an ongoing reduction to the trial courts, which, if enacted, would cost $42  million ongoing; and (3)  the Governor ’s
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Jun 12, 2025 - . ✘ Chapter 803 of 2018 (AB 1065, Jones ‑Sawyer) Adds conditions under which people arrested for shoplifting can be held in jail until arraignment, such as having previously been cited for theft from a store or vehicle in the last six months. ✘ Elevated Some Retail Theft Crimes From Misdemeanors to Felonies Chapter 168 of 2024 (AB 2943, Zbur) Allows the dollar value of thefts
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055