Courts caught in state's budget mess - Capitol and California - Fresnobee.com:
"When the state assumed full financial responsibility for the court system a decade ago, it was billed as a way of relieving pressure on county finances.
However, much like the state's shouldering the financial burden for schools, judicial centralization has created unintended consequences. In both cases, hitherto independent systems have found that shifting financial responsibility to Sacramento puts them in competition with other sectors of the state budget for increasingly limited dollars."
"When the state assumed full financial responsibility for the court system a decade ago, it was billed as a way of relieving pressure on county finances.
However, much like the state's shouldering the financial burden for schools, judicial centralization has created unintended consequences. In both cases, hitherto independent systems have found that shifting financial responsibility to Sacramento puts them in competition with other sectors of the state budget for increasingly limited dollars."