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

Apr 11, 2025 - This could have the effect of making it more difficult for counties to demonstrate improvement relative to the proposed baselines, artificially lowering grant awards through the performance payment. Additionally, the administration ind icates it does not anticipate proposing future changes to the baseline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - All other people released are placed under the supervision of a county probation officer. Only two components of Proposition  36 relate to serious or violent crimes, meaning only these provisions could impact the parole population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Based upon our request, the Chancellor ’s Office also provided data on the share of incarcerated students that continued their studies (either  at CDCR; another correctional facility, such as a county jail; or in the community, if released).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - November 2025 Statewide Special Election County and State Costs for Special Election. Chapter  97 of 2025 (SB  280, Cervantes) called a statewide special election on November 4, 2025, for voters to consider Proposition 50 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 26, 2025 - Second, it requires that people are generally given the option of treatment in lieu of incarceration in county jail or state prison. Accordingly, the number of people that reach prison under Proposition  36 for drug possession is likely to be substantially smaller than the number of people that were sentenced to prison for drug possession prior to the passage of Proposition  47.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Such funds are allocated by the state to support trial court operations in counties that collect more property tax than state law allows them to spend on education. This reduction is the same as the revised 2023-24 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924