The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - BFS also assists the 12 counties and 8 cities that operate their own laboratories where BFS offers services their laboratories lack. (Local agencies also contract with private or other governmental laboratories for services.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of State Hospitals (DSH)

Feb 22, 2017 - Governor ’s Proposal The Governor ’s budget proposes a General Fund augmentation of $8  million and 45  additional positions in 2017-18 to staff two of the four pilot ETP units beginning in February  2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3578

The 2018-19 Budget: Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 27, 2018 - Governor’s Proposal The Governor proposes a $1. 8  m illion General Fund augmentation in 2018 ‑19 for CDCR to increase wages for facility maintenance inmate workers to equal those received by CalPIA and IWL inmate workers —specifically from between $0.08 and $0. 37 p er hour to between $0.35 and $1. 00 p er hour.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3762

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 17, 2019 - In addition, the budget provides $8  million (General Fund) to implement therapeutic communities (support groups of 10 to 12 youth with structured activities throughout the day) in state juvenile facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4097

The 2017-18 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Mar 1, 2017 - Acute Psychiatric Programs (APPs). APPs provide shorter-term, intensive treatment for inmates who show signs of a major mental illness or higher level symptoms of a chronic mental illness. Currently, there are 372 APP beds, all of which are in state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3595

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

Jun 12, 2025 - This  is known as the “clearance rate. ” As shown in Figure  4 , California ’s clearance rate for property crimes declined over the past decade from about 14  percent of reported crimes cleared in 2014 to about 8  percent in 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program [Publication Details]

Mar 13, 2025 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 On Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor and Transportation
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5016

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

Feb 19, 2025 - Subject to Legislative Appropriation $50.0 CDE Program or activities (such as physical security improvements and school ‑based mental health services) addressing risk factors for gun violence affecting K ‑12 students. 3 15.0 JC Court ‑based firearm relinquishment grant program to facilitate removal of firearms and ammunition from individuals who become prohibited from owning or possessing them
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

Overview of Proposition 36 Fiscal Impacts and Selected Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 25, 2025 - Senate Committee on Public Safety and Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 On Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor and Transportation
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4981

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Public Safety Package

Feb 17, 2022 - We also recommend the Legislature consider approving the proposed $5  million ongoing General Fund for the DOJ Task Force Program as the funding would maintain DOJ participation in its eight existing task forces.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546