The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - We also recommend the Legislature provide DOJ with direction on how much of BFS operation revenues should come from local, state, and other agencies (such as one ‑third or one ‑half), as well as whether the Legislature plans to directly appropriate a specific General Fund amount to support a certain level of services for state agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Justice Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - We also recommend the Legislature provide DOJ with direction on how much of BFS operation revenues should come from local agencies (such as one ‑third or one ‑half). This would generally reduce the amount of General Fund needed to support BFS costs on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4527

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - This is because both agencies already need to collect much of the specified data for other purposes. For example, CDCR already knows which prison spaces it uses for rehabilitative purposes and how much time is scheduled for each rehabilitative program in that  space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Justice Budget Proposals

Feb 23, 2023 - In discussions with DOJ, it is unclear the extent to which such penalty revenues and attorneys ’ fees will be sought, how much might be obtained, and the extent to which they will be used to offset this  workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4701

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - As such, if the Legislature wishes to have substantively more reserves available when responding to downturns or other emergencies, we would recommend also changing the formulas that set aside funds each year to increase how much is saved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - Both components of the Governor ’s proposed augmentation provide Judicial Council with complete discretion over (1)  what the funds are used for and (2)  how the funds are allocated to the trial courts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Oct 10, 2023 - Determining how much of the state savings should be shared with the counties ultimately depends on how the Legislature weighs the goal of achieving state savings versus reducing prison commitments. Historically, the percentage of state savings that has been passed on to counties has been between 35  percent and 45  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4806

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - One common way used to compare differences in indigent defense and district attorney office spending is to calculate how much is spent on indigent defense as a percentage of how much is spent on district attorney offices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

A Review of State Standards and Inspections for Local Detention Facilities

Feb 16, 2021 - Much of what defines legally acceptable conditions of detention is based on decades of past court decisions. In the process of deciding these previous cases, courts resolved ambiguities in the law —setting a precedent for how later courts analyze similar issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4371

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - This means the Legislature receives key revenue and expenditure information to monitor the health of t hese funds and makes decisions about how much funding should be available from them to support DOJ litigation activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831