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 2022-23 Budget: Department of Justice Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - 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/4527

The 2023-24 Budget: Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Testing Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - State and local agencies are responsible for the costs of purchasing SAE kits. Medical facilities generally send the SAE kit to the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the sexual assault who would then send the SAE kit to a forensic laboratory for testing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4714

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

Feb 19, 2025 - For example, the actual data could reflect that firearm purchases are disproportionately higher or lower at certain times of the year —thereby impacting annual revenue estimates. This means that revenues could either be higher or lower than currently projected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

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

Oct 16, 2023 - Other major adjustments include: $28.8  million ongoing General Fund to provide people in prison with free voice calling as required by Chapter  827 of 2022 (SB  1008, Becker). $26.8  million ongoing increase in Inmate Welfare Fund authority to allow CDCR to receive a projected increase in revenues from prison canteens (stores where people in prison can purchase various items).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

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

Feb 17, 2022 - According to the administration, this language is intended to prioritize grant funds for law enforcement agencies in the Fresno and Sacramento areas where the Governor proposes to establish two new California Highway Patrol (CHP) Organized Retail Crime Task Forces (ORCTFs), as discussed further below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Two key areas where these savings have eroded are in the managed care organization (MCO) tax package and reductions to state operations. These are described in the box below. The forthcoming Appendix 1 will also provide a full list of the solutions from the 2024 ‑25 budget package that generate savings in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Justice Budget Proposals

Feb 23, 2023 - This includes where ongoing funding is provided for these specific budget requests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4701

The 2023-24 Budget: Racial and Identity Profiling Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - Specifically, the Commission found that this requirement imposed new state-mandated activities and costs on county and city government agencies employing law enforcement officers for police protection services —but not K-12 school districts or community college districts that employ law enforcement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4715

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - If, instead, the survey was based on the six counties where the most Unit  6 members work —the Counties of Kern, Kings, Riverside, Solano, Monterey, and Sacramento —the study would have included counties where more than 50  percent of Unit  6 members work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800