The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Beginning in 2018, Chapter  681 of 2017 (SB  395, Lara) required that arrested youths age 15 and younger be provided a consultation with legal counsel before they may waive their Miranda rights or be interrogated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Pursuant to the law, the cost to support the redistricting process are incurred over three fiscal years because the commission is required to be created no later than December 31 in each year ending in the number zero and the redistricting commission is required to adopt new boundaries for supervisor districts before August 15 of the year following the year in which each decenn ial federal census is taken.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - HCD transferred the remaining $15 million to DGS through an architectural revolving fund in September 2021 for the investigation and remediation of environmental conditions on excess sites. Governor ’s 2022 ‑23 Budget Proposal Augments Funding for State Excess Sites Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - In the case of the 24 c ities most reliant on TOT (the top 5 p ercent), TOT collections in 2018 ‑ 19 c onstituted between 15 p ercent and 59 p ercent of the cities ’ 2018 ‑ 19 l ocal revenues. Significant Reliance on User Fee Revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II

Mar 4, 2020 - Like the three years used by the Commission, the average number of opened fact-finding cases across these eight fiscal years also averaged to about 40 cases each year; however, the range was much more wide with only 15 cases in 2011 ‑12 and 59 cases in 2012 ‑13.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - DSS indicated that a joint request for applications (RFA) portal for CCE capital expansion projects and BH ‑CIP shovel ‑ready projects will be launched February 15 for counties, cities, tribes, non ‑profits, and for ‑profit organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Additional research suggests that 15 wastewater treatment plants in California will be exposed to flooding with three feet of sea‑level rise, growing to 36 facilities with six feet of sea‑level rise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - The estimated unemployment rate for workers in lower ‑income households ( 15  p ercent) is five times higher than the estimated unemployment rate for workers in higher ‑income households ( 3  p ercent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312