The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - Concerns With DROS Special Account Insolvency Led to Greater Use of General Fund … As shown in Figure  2, support for BOF followed a fee-based funding structure through 2018-19, with all BOF costs supported by special funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - Specifically, the 2018 ‑19 budget included $1.3  billion in lease revenue bond authority backed by the General Fund —rather than the SCFCF —to finance ten previously planned projects. This commitment effectively backfilled the $1.4  billion transferred from the SCFCF to the General Fund to help address the state ’s budget condition between 2009 ‑10 and 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - Governor ’s Proposal $19  Million Ongoing General Fund to Maintain Self Help Center Funding. The Governor ’s 2024 ‑25 budget proposes to provide a $19  million ongoing General Fund augmentation for self-help centers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - COVID‑19 Health Care Costs Background COVID ‑19 Had Major Impact on CDCR. Between the start of the pandemic and January  28, 2024, a total of about 96,000 COVID ‑19 cases have been reported by CDCR as occurring within prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

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

Feb 23, 2026 - On May 19, 2025, the administration notified the Legislature that CDCR was projected to exceed its 2024 ‑25 budget by about $358  million and requested reappropriations of previously unspent funds from prior years to address this shortfall.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

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

Jun 12, 2025 - About half of this decline occurred between 2019 and 2020, suggesting that factors such as temporary stay ‑at ‑home orders and closure of nonessential retail businesses in the early part of the COVID ‑19 pandemic likely contributed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

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

Oct 24, 2025 - . $33  million in 2025-26 and $35  million in 2026-27 to continue to process and pay open workers' compensation claims related to COVID-19. Additionally, the budget provides $8.5  million in 2025-26 and ongoing to pay for workers ’ compensation and disability insurance claims of CDCR healthcare employees. $31.4  million in 2025-26 and ongoing to accommodate growth in food costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - Specifically, spending on district attorney offices was nearly $50 per person in 2018 ‑ 19 —an increase of about $12 per person (or 32  percent) from 2009 ‑10. In contrast, spending on indigent defense was about $27 per person in 2018 ‑ 19 —an increase of about $4 per person (or 20  percent) from 2009 ‑10.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

The 2021-22 Budget: Trial Court Operations Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - For example, the 2018 ‑ 19 b udget also included $3. 2  m illion General Fund in 2018 ‑19, declining to $709,000 annually beginning in 2020 ‑21, for the judicial branch to design, build, and maintain an e ‑services web portal for self ‑represented individuals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4362

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 6, 2021 - COVID-19-Related Funding. The budget provides $408  million one-time General Fund in 2021 ‑22 for costs of responding to COVID-19, including testing, treatment, surge capacity, custody overtime, and cleaning, as well as reimbursements for county jails housing people sentenced to state prison due to restrictions on prison admissions intended to reduce the spread of the virus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460