Budget Resource
Center

...providing state budgets, reports, and current news to help the court community make informed budgetary decisions.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Reports

• "Federal Funding Report." Arlington, VA: Government Relations Office, National Center for State Courts
• State Responses. StateRecovery.org. A Service of the Council of State Governments.
• Recovery Act: Research and Evaluation of Recovery Act State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. Apply by May 18, 2009.
• Federal Funding Report. Arlington: National Center for State Courts. 9:2 (March 17, 2009).
• "Estimated State Allocations of Selected Proposed House Stimulus Funds." NCSL.org. January 23, 2009.

General Reports

• "What percentage of your state’s budget goes to fund the Supreme Court/Court of Highest Jurisdiction?" National Center for State Courts. August 2009.
• "State Court Budget Matrix." National Center for State Courts. Summer 2009.
• SJI Submits FY2010 Budget Request to Congress. E-SJI News. Vol. 19, no. 4. (January 2009).
• A Decade of Trial Court Funding. California Courts Review. (Winter 2009).
• Justice John Dooley. "Judicial Funding in Times of Budget Crisis." The Vermont Bar Journal (Winter 2008/2009).
• Kevin Burke. "Editorial: An Impending Crisis in State Court Funding." Judicature 92:2 (September-October 2008).
• Alan Carlson, Kate Harrison, and John K. Hudzik. "Adequate, Stable, Equitable, and Responsible Trial Court Funding: Reframing the State vs. Local Debate." Justice Management Institute. September 2008.
• Daniel J. Hall. "Court Funding: Lessons from the Last Recession." Programs Committe Meeting, National Center for State Courts. April 12, 2008.
• Michael Buenger. "State Courts and State Legislatures: A Funding Crisis Renewed." In Future Trends in State Courts 2008. Williamsburg, VA: National Center for State Courts. 2008.
• Carl Reynolds, Dave Byers and Carl Vickrey. "Creative Ways to use Non-Profits and Foundations to Enhance Judicial Department Operations." COSCA Mid-year 2007 Presentation. December 2007.
• "Transition and Transformation: the Minnesota State Funding Program."  Minnesota State Court Administrator's Office. NACM Justice Achievement Award Submission 2006.
• Dan Hall. Funding of State Court Systems and Trial Courts." 2005 NACM Annual Meeting. Denver: National Center for State Courts. July 11, 2005.
• Patricia M. Brynes. "State Funding of Trial Courts: Minnesota's Transition Experience." Court Executive Development Program Paper. May 2004.
• Board for Judicial Administration, Court Funding Task Force. Justice in Jeopardy: The Court Funding Crisis in Washington State. Olympia: Washington Courts, 2004.
• David B. Rottman and Shauna M. Strickland. State Court Organization: Table 16: “Preparation and Submission of the Judicial Branch Budget for State Funding.” Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004.
• David B. Rottman and Shauna M. Strickland. State Court Organization: Table 17: “Trial Court Expenditures and Funding Sources for Selected Expenditure Items.” Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004.
• Jeffrey Barlow. "Funding Court Technology Initiatives." Court Technology Conference 8, 2003.
• Dan Hall. "Budget Wars." COSCA Midyear Meeting 2002. Denver: National Center for State Courts. 2002.

General Web sites

• American Bar Association. State Court Funding Crisis Online Toolkit.
• American Judicature Society.
• Funding Justice. Florida State Courts.
• Grant Solicitation/Alternate Funding. CourTopics. National Center for State Courts, Knowledge and Information Services Division.
• Funding - Preparing Your Budget. Court Challenges Program of Canada.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
• State Justice Institute.