The 2023-24 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training—Office of Administrative Hearing Costs

Feb 13, 2023 - As of January 2023, POST had filled roughly one-third of its 16 positions in the Intake and Disposition bureau, which is responsible for analyzing and evaluating complaints received from the public and serious misconduct allegations received from l aw enforcement agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4677

The 2021-22 Budget: Trial Court Operations Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - This report should be due to the Legislature no later than November 30, 2022 i n order to inform legislative decisions on self ‑help funding for the 2023 ‑ 24 b udget. (This complements the recommendation below that funding only be provided through 2022 ‑23.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4362

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 26, 2022 - This augmentation supports additional investigative personnel and equipment for DOJ investigations (and potential prosecutions) of police officers who are involved in shootings that resulted in the death of an unarmed citize n.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Under federal l aw, state and local government employers may continue to exclude some employees from Social Security coverage, but only if those employees are enrolled in a retirement plan that meets federal regulations requiring at least a specified level of benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Increasing Oversight of the State Litigation Deposit Fund

Jan 28, 2021 - As shown in Figure  3 , of the total amount transferred, the amount transferred to the General Fund was comparatively low —ranging from $ 62  m illion in 2011 ‑ 12 t o a little more than $4, 000 i n 2015 ‑16.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4322

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - Below, we describe i n more detail the categories of such metrics. Workload Metrics. Workload metrics provide more objective and actionable ways of evaluating indigent defense performance as they generally help measure what activities an office and/or individual has worked on or completed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - In addition, in light of the latitude requested by the administration for use of this funding, particularly i n the near term, we suggest the Legislature require a regular annual update on the use of the $300  million funding with release of the Governor ’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 16, 2023 - This brief provides our analysis of the Governor’s 2023-24 budget proposals related to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686

A Review of State Standards and Inspections for Local Detention Facilities

Feb 16, 2021 - Statewide, jails have a capacity of 80,000 and had an average daily population of 73, 500 i n 2019. Of this population, 67  p ercent were unsentenced, 82  p ercent were charged with or convicted of a felony, and 87  p ercent were male.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4371