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

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

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - State Lacks Information to Assess Indigent Defense Service Levels In order to help ensure that effective indigent defense assistance is being provided, it is important for the state to periodically assess indigent defense service levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 16, 2023 - Trends in the State Prison and Parole Populations Background As shown in Figure  1 , the average daily prison population is projected to be 93,400 in 2023 ‑24, a decrease of about 2,800 people (3  percent) from the estimated current ‑year level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686

Overview and Update on the Prison Receivership

Nov 8, 2023 - The EHRS was developed to provide an electronic health record for each patient that would (1) be available at all prisons, (2) eliminate the need for paper files that must be transported between prisons, (3) provide real‑time data on the level of care provided, and (4) standardize and coordinate medical record entries that were previously difficult to access in the paper‑based system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4813

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

Feb 22, 2024 - As shown in Figure  2 , the average daily prison population is projected to be 91,700 in 2024 ‑25, a decrease of about 2,500  people (3  percent) from the estimated current ‑year level. The average daily parole population is projected to be 35,500 in 2024 ‑25, a decrease of 1,000 people (3  percent) from the estimated current ‑year level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852