Industry Insider California - Sacramento, California Member Briefing with California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation - CDCR - 2025

Industry Insider – California members are invited to attend this in-person exclusive briefing with the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation (CDCR).

The California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation (CDCR) is charting a forward-looking course that blends public-safety excellence with modern, data-driven operations. Agency leaders are expanding officer accountability tools and updating core offender-management systems to streamline workflows and improve decision-making. At the same time, CDCR remains deeply focused on its human-centered mission of delivering robust rehabilitation and education programs inside facilities and providing hands-on parole supervision to help people succeed once they return to their communities. With an estimated IT budget of $518M, this briefing is a chance for technology industry partners to hear firsthand where CDCR is headed, understand the challenges behind these initiatives, and explore how innovative solutions can support safer facilities, stronger re-entry outcomes, and more efficient statewide operations.