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

Jan 31, 2022 - Peace Officer Decertification Program Established by Chapter 409 of 2021 (SB 2, Bradford and Atkins). Prior to the enactment of SB 2, POST lacked the authority to suspend or revoke an officer’s basic certificate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4507

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, it could (1)  make it easier to recruit staff located in areas with a wider pool of applicants, (2)  reduce the need for mental health staff at locations with large vacancies, and (3)  reduce the competition for mental health staff among adjacent facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Goal 2 Achieve and Retain a Qualified Mental Health Workforce Selected Actions Enhance recruitment of clinicians by expanding use of mental health internship programs. Assess factors contributing to clinician fear and identify strategies for addressing them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - This means that CDCR accepted about 6  percent of qualified applicants to enroll in the academy to receive training to become a correctional officer. Among all applications, qualified and not qualified, CDCR accepted about 5  percent of applicants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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

Oct 24, 2025 - It also includes legislation that would allow mental health professionals who are gaining qualifying experience for licensure to practice in prisons through a licensure waiver. Rehabilitation-Related Funding.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

The 2026-27 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 23, 2026 - As part of the Governor ’s January budget proposal each year, DOF (1)  estimates the state savings resulting from Proposition  47 in the current year, which is then reflected in the budget as a transfer to the SNSF in the budget year and (2)  projects the estimated state savings that will occur in future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5108

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 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 26, 2022 - In addition, the budget provides a $7 million augmentation in federal fund authority to reflect an increase in the amount of federal reimbursement the state receives for qualifying victim service expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - While some of these people may be low-income enough to obtain free legal representation (such as through the Shriver Program or EAF Program), a number of them will not be eligible because the income threshold that must be met to qualify for those programs is quite low.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - . $1.6  million to backfill reduced civil fee revenue from changes adopted in the 2022-23 budget package allowing more lower-income people to automatically qualify for a waiver of such fees. This reflects a $16.4  million reduction in 2023-24 relative to the amount provided in 2022-23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805