The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 22, 2022 - Rate Development Process for State Data Center IT Services. CDT sets State Data Center IT  service rates to recover the cost of services, both direct (such as hardware and software) and indirect (such as internal CDT administration).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4552

The 2021-22 Budget: Medi-Cal Enterprise System Modernization Effort

Feb 17, 2021 - To better align some Medi ‑Cal IT systems with MITA and benefit from the available enhanced federal funding, DHCS started a number of Medi ‑Cal IT system modernization initiatives, including CA ‑MMIS Modernization in 2010, the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Data System in 2015, and MEDS Modernization in 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4375

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - For any determined measures that DSS/counties do not currently report on, the Legislature could direct any necessary additional data collection now to ensure impacts may be measured over time. Regardless of any new data collection the Legislature may wish to add, the state will collect the federally required data elements once the new child welfare data system (CWS ‑CARES) comes online.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - The nearby box provides additional context around the data used for this report, including information on some potential data limitations. General Notes on Data Used for This Report and Potential Data Limitations Disaggregation of Data by Race/Ethnicity and Primary Language.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - Additional Data Collection to Help Address Issues in Child Welfare Programs. Recent bills signed into law seek to address issues in the state ’s child welfare programs, and addressing these issues will require improved data collection and disaggregation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - What role do county policies and processes and the design and operation of automation and data systems play in determining the state ’s error rates in each program? Do some counties have significantly higher or lower error rates than others and are there practices or other circumstances that contribute to this  variation?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - All data-sharing shall comply with the Information Practices Act of 1977. The spending plan indicates the Legislature ’s intent for this data-sharing to be used to measure point-in-time data and trends in homelessness, housing instability, and utilization of housing services amongst individuals and families in CDSS programs, including CalWORKs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The state operations funding is to support staff that will share student eligibility data and provide technical assistance to schools. Other Food Assistance Funding and Programmatic Changes Includes About $2.7  Million for CalFresh and SUN Bucks Workload Changes in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Data Describing Medication‑Assisted Treatment Data From Two Complementary Sources. To  analyze trends in medication ‑assisted treatment, we explore data from two sources. These sources describe two different parts of the treatment landscape, with largely complementary strengths and weaknesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - We note that these growth components are our best estimates based on the data we have available at this time. Moreover, costs to administer the program also make up a small component of the growth listed above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166