The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - The 2020 ‑21 budget included $11  million in ongoing funding from the TCTF to reflect the additional amount of revenue available to support the program after Chapter  217 of 2019 (AB  330, Gabriel) increased the amount of certain post-judgement civil filing fees that are available to support the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

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

Feb 22, 2024 - Background State Currently Operating 32 Prisons. As of January  17,  2024, CDCR was responsible for incarcerating a total of about 93,900   people —89 ,100  men, 4,200 women, and 600  nonbinary people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

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

Oct 16, 2023 - Some of the notable augmentations include: $19  million General Fund in 2023-24 (decreasing to $4.2  million annually beginning in 2025-26) to implement Chapter  326 of 2022 (AB  1981, Lee) related to juror reimbursement and compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - This means that the average retiring correctional officer was hired at the age of 32 years. In the early and mid-2000s, the state hired a la rge number of new correctional officers. This created a cohort of correctional officers of a similar age.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2023-24 Budget: Racial and Identity Profiling Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - Chapter  466 of 2015 (AB  953, Weber) expanded the prohibition on law enforcement engaging in racial profiling to also prohibit identity profiling. Additionally, Chapter  466 increased law enforcement reporting requirements by requiring each state and local agency that employs law enforcement officers report annually to DOJ on all stops conducted by its officers for the preceding calendar year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4715

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Justice Budget Proposals

Feb 23, 2023 - Chapter 98 of 2022 (AB 1594, Ting): Firearm Civil Suits Beginning July 2023, requires firearm industry members comply with a specified standard of conduct —such as to implement reasonable controls to prevent firearm ‑related loss or theft.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4701

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

Feb 16, 2023 - For example, wit h the deactivation of DVI, the state was able to avoid a water ‑treatment project —projected in 2018 to cost $32   million —that would have been necessary to comply with drinking water standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686

Promoting Equity in the Parole Hearing Process

Jan 5, 2023 - This includes about 700 people (1  percent) sentenced to death; 5,100 (5  percent) sentenced to LWOP; 31,000 (32  percent) with indeterminate sentences; and 59,000 (62  percent) with determinate sentences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4658

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 26, 2022 - The budget also requires DOJ submit a report assessing the program by April 2023. $2.3 million in 2022-23 (decreasing to $1.6 million annually beginning in 2023-24) for continued implementation of Chapter 326 of 2020 (AB 1506, McCarthy).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - As shown in Figure  11 , in  2018 ‑19, arrests per attorney in 25 of 32 district attorney offices clustered between 201 to 400. Arrests per attorney in public defender offices reflected greater variation across counties, with 24 of 32 public defender offices reporting ranging between 201 to 500 arrests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623