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

Oct 24, 2025 - This increase largely results from the anticipated increases in prices of pharmaceuticals. $15.3  million net increase to implement the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal Justice-Involved initiative within CDCR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

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

Feb 22, 2024 - Utility Prices Have Outpaced CPI. CDCR reports that while its utility usage has remained relatively constant, total costs have outpaced their funding level. This is because utility rate increases set by utility providers have generally outpaced CPI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Justice Budget Proposals

Feb 23, 2023 - Antitrust Gasoline Pricing, Agriculture, and Technology Enforcement DOJ requests resources to support increased workload to investigate and prosecute antitrust violations in the technology, gasoline and oil, and agriculture sectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4701

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The most recent (July) California Consumer Price Index was 3.1  percent higher compared to the prior year. Since 2020, however, prices have risen 17  percent. GSIs provided by prior agreements to Unit  6 did not keep pace with these increases, as noted above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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

Sep 26, 2022 - On an ongoing basis, the department ’s utilities and waste removal funding will be adjusted to account for future cost changes using the California Consumer Price Index. $19.5 million in 2022-23 (decreasing to $1.4 million in 2023-24 and ongoing) to develop an IT system for centrally storing records —including e ‑mails, personnel files, video, and audio recordings —which CDCR may
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

Increasing Oversight of the State Litigation Deposit Fund

Jan 28, 2021 - For example, DOJ might initiate a case against a business for bid rigging (a type of price fixing) as a violation of the state ’s unfair competition laws, anti ‑trust laws, or both. A legal document filed with the court to initiate a case will specify the specific pieces of state law DOJ believes have been violated, how these laws have been violated, and what remedies or relief are being sought (such as attorney fees or civil penalties).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4322

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

Jan 13, 2022 - On January 10, 2022, Governor Newsom presented his proposed state budget to the Legislature. In this report, we provide a brief summary of the proposed budget based on our initial review. In the coming weeks, we will analyze the plan in more detail and release several additional budget analyses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492