The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package also included supplemental reporting language requiring a report —due on or before March  1, 2026, and annually thereafter for three years —on the problems the program was designed to address and how the funds were used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Require Administration to Report on Key Unanswered Questions. We recommend that the Legislature adopt budget bill language requiring the administration to submit a report by January  10, 2026 that answers the key questions outlined above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - We recommend CDCR report the results by the risk level of reoffending of the incarcerated students. All  of this information could be reported in the existing recidivism reports CDCR conducts annually —typically released in the spring.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - (The budget totals reported here and below do not reflect the plan to reduce General Fund state operations spending by up to 7.95  percent on an ongoing basis statewide beginning in 2024-25. For more on this planned reduction, please see the “State Operations and Employee Compensation” write-up in our Other Provisions post.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Apr 11, 2025 - This makes it difficult for the Legislature to assess whether counties that report funding evidence-based practices and programs are in fact doing so. This is concerning given one of the goals of the program is to improve public safety by incen tivizing the use of these practices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - For more detail on some of the challenges that can arise when a fund source does not have adequate capacity to support debt service payments, see our report, The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Fund Shift for CHP and DMV Capital Projects .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709