The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Justice Budget Proposals

Feb 23, 2023 - The status of the remaining 40 percent is unclear, as shown in Figure 11. Summary of LAO 2021 Report Findings on the Litigation Deposit Fund (LDF) Our January 2021 report — Increasing Oversight of the State Litigation Deposit Fund —found that current state law and the Department of Justice (DOJ) practices related to the LDF limit the opportunity for the Legislature to conduct effective oversight of the LDF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4701

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - The Governor proposes to pay down $8.4  billion of this amount, with districts receiving the associated cash in 2021 ‑22. Slightly more than $4  billion would remain deferred from 2021 ‑22 to 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2021-22 Budget: Trial Court Operations Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Under this proposal, the tool would be implemented in an additional 10 c ourts in 2021 ‑22, 21 c ourts in 2022 ‑23, and the last 20 c ourts in 2023 ‑24. The Governor ’s budget proposes $4. 4  m illion in 2021 ‑22, declining to $2. 7  m illion annually beginning in 2024 ‑25, to support this expansion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4362

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 6, 2021 - The budget reflects the planned closure of DVI in Tracy by September 30, 2021. This closure is estimated to generate General Fund savings of $100.9  million in 2021 ‑22 and $126.1  million in 2022 ‑23 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - Regulation of Online Market Places. Chapter  857 of 2022 (S B  301 , Skinner) and Chapter  172 of 2024 (S B  1144 , Skinner) require online marketplaces to collect information from certain sellers and report sellers to law enforcement when there is reason to believe the seller is offering stolen goods for sale.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - Given the insolvency of the SCFCF, the 2021 ‑22 budget shifted support for the construction of any future courthouses to the General Fund. Accordingly, the 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 budgets included General Fund support to start the construction or renovation of nearly a dozen of the highest ranked immediate need projects identified  in the judicial branch ’s 2019 assessment of facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - These include: $12  million one-time augmentation to provide competitive grants to federally recognized Indian tribes in California to support efforts to identify, investigate, and solve cases involving missing and murdered indigenous people. $9.3  million one-time augmentation to assist counties with the temporary increase in the population served by county probation departments due to expedited
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

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

Sep 26, 2022 - As shown in the figure, the prison population is projected to increase by about 4,900 (5 percent) from 98,000 in 2021-22 to 102,900 in 2022-23. The parole population is projected to decrease by about 2,900 (6 percent) from 46,500 in 2021-22 to 43,600 in 2022-23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

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

Jan 13, 2022 - In tandem with providing ongoing base augmentations, the Governor sets forth a total of 40 associated expectations for the universities (22 for CSU and 18 for UC). These expectations focus on student access, overall student outcomes, equity in student outcomes, college affordability, intersegmental collaboration, workforce preparedness, and online education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Justice Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - As shown in Figure  1 , the Governor ’s budget proposes $1.2  billion to support DOJ operations in 2022 ‑ 23 —an increase of $40  million (or 3.4  percent) —over the revised amount for 2021 ‑22. About half of the proposed funding supports DOJ ’s Division of Legal Services, while the remainder supports the Division of Law Enforcement and the California Justice Information Services Division.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4527