The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - Specifically, lowering the amounts provided to particular programs could increase the likelihood that more of the programs listed in Chapter  231 receive some level of funding. For example, the 2024-25 budget eliminated $9  million in General Fund support for CalVIP beginning in 2025-26 due to the anticipation of GVPSS Fund monies being available to support the program instead.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2025 - In this post, we provide an update and comments on the implementation of a new firearm and ammunition tax that went into effect beginning July 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - This is due to the complex formula that dictates the order in which special funds receive criminal fine and fee revenue that is collected. Given the fund ’s priority order in this formula, it is not certain that it would receive the expected revenues as funds with a higher ‑priority order could receive the bulk of any additional revenue collected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Utilization standards would establish the amount of time that rooms and “stations ” (such as a desk or computer terminal) should be used. Having these standards and utilization reports would not only help guide decisions about the amount of classroom space needed but would also help assess the need for other rehabilitation space at a systemwide level and at particular prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s Criminal Fine and Fee Proposals

Mar 3, 2017 - Specifically, the Governor proposes to eliminate SPF funding for the (1)  California Gang Reduction, Intervention, and Prevention Program; (2)  Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforces; (3)  Local Public Prosecutors and Public Defenders Training Program; and (4)  Motorcyclist Safety Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3600

Recent Report Compares California Inmate Health Care Costs to Rest of Nation

Jan 18, 2018 - California ’s Inmate Health Care Costs Grew Among Fastest in Nation. In addition to having the highest inmate health care costs, California ’s costs (on a per inmate basis) grew significantly faster since 2009 ‑10 than the national average —25  percent versus 3  percent nationwide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3733

Judicial Branch Actions Responding to COVID-19

May 6, 2020 - For example, the Alameda Superior Court is allowing members of the public to conduct record searches between 8:30 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. However, access is limited to one or two people in the clerk ’s office at a time and computer use is limited to 15 minutes per person.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4227

State Correctional Spending Increased Despite Significant Population Reductions

Feb 4, 2020 - Despite Population Reduction, CDCR Spending Increased Although the state ’s inmate and parolee populations have declined significantly in recent years, the level of spending on CDCR has increased. As shown in Figure  2 , expenditures increased by $3. 6  b illion ( 37  p ercent) —from about $9. 7  b illion in 2010 ‑ 11 t o an estimated $13. 3  b illion in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4145

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor's Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 19, 2019 - CDCR expects the proposed mentor program to improve literacy levels by increasing access to literacy education, leading to higher TABE scores and high school diplomas/equivalencies. Under the proposed program, each instructor would train 20 i nmate literacy mentors beginning in July 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3940

Improving California’s Prison Inmate Classification System

May 2, 2019 - Federal Court Ordered California to Limit Prison Population In November 2006, plaintiffs in two ongoing class action lawsuits —now called Plata v. Newsom  (involving inmate medical care) and   Coleman v.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4023