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

Feb 23, 2026 - Mental Health Receivership Could Last Longer Than Estimated. The Coleman court has discretion on deciding how the state can exit the mental health Receivership. Although the action plan estimates the Receiver will take five to seven years to achieve compliance, it could extend longer than estimated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - First, the Legislature may wish to consider whether counties have the capacity to increase their funding for behavioral health to meet the Behavioral Health Continuum grant proposal ’s match requirement without reducing existing services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Moreover, specific budgetary conditions occurring this year —including legislative action taken last year to withdraw more in reserves this year —make interpretation of the budget position more complex.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Jun 12, 2025 - Previously, misdemeanor probation terms could last up to three years and felony probation terms could last up to the greater of five years or the maximum sentence for the crime the person was on probation for.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

Improving Parolee Substance Use Disorder Treatment Through Medi-Cal

Apr 14, 2021 - For example, West Care currently serves as the regional contractor in most of Northern and Central California and subcontracts with various local providers in those counties to provide services to  parolees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4411

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - We note that the workload and staffing data is through 2018 ‑19 as this is the last full fiscal year before the COVID ‑19 pandemic, which had significant —likely limited term —impacts on the processing of criminal cases, meaning that workload and staffing data from that time period may not accurately reflect ongoing trends in the provision of indigent defense.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

The 2022-23 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Jan 31, 2022 - Lastly, the revised proposal should include a plan for addressing the implementation challenges we have identified, such as how POST will hire sufficient staff and house them in its existing office space to implement S B  2 in a  timely manner.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4507

The 2023-24 Budget: Racial and Identity Profiling Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - The Commission found that these new activities and costs resulted from agencies needing to (1)  identify the peace officers required to report stops and maintain a system to match individual officers to an identification number, (2)  collect the stop data, (3)  electronically submit data to DOJ and retain stop data, (4)  work with DOJ to audit and validate the data after
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4715

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - In the case of retiree health benefits, the state pays a percentage of pay towards normal cost (specified in labor agreements and matched by employees) to prefund the benefit and it pays the unfunded liability on a “pay-as-you-go ” basis where it pays out the claims cost for existing retirees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Overview and Update on the Prison Receivership

Nov 8, 2023 - Phase two is currently underway with the last project expected to be complete by the end of 2024. The state has dedicated a total of about $90  million for the two phases. Creation of Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program (ISUDTP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4813