California Department of Justice

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California Department of Justice

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Agency overview
Formed	1943
Preceding agency	Department of Penology
Type	Executive Department
Jurisdiction	California government
Headquarters	4949 Broadway, Sacramento, California, United States
Employees	4,500
Annual budget	$1.1 billion (FY 2021)
Agency executives	Rob Bonta, Attorney General Venus D. Johnson, Chief Deputy Attorney General
Website	oag.ca.gov

The California Department of Justice is a statewide investigative law enforcement agency and legal department of the California executive branch under the elected leadership of the Attorney General of California (AG) which carries out complex criminal and civil investigations, prosecutions, and other legal services throughout the US State of California.^[1] The department is equivalent to the state bureaus of investigation in other states.