The Judicial Council facilities consist of the Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, Trial Courts, and the Administrative Office of the Courts. The Supreme Court is located within the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza (98,155 square feet (sf)), the Library and Courts Building in Sacramento (2,480 sf), currently vacant due to renovation, and the Ronald Reagan State Office Building in Los Angeles (7,598 sf). The Courts of Appeal are organized into six districts, operate in 10 different locations, and consist of 505,337 sf. The Trial Courts are located in 58 counties statewide consisting of more than 500 buildings, 2,100 courtrooms, and over 13 million sf of usable area. The space includes public courtrooms, judges' chambers, staff workspace, storage space, training rooms, and conference rooms. The Administrative Office of the Courts facilities are primarily located in San Francisco (Headquarters), Burbank, and Sacramento and occupy 343,423 sf.

As part of the budget solutions, the 2011 Budget Act included various loans and transfers from the Immediate and Critical Needs Account, which funds all Senate Bill 1407 (Chapter 311, Statutes of 2008) trial court capital projects. In response to these transfers, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed a 25-member Court Facilities Working Group to review and revise the funding plans for the SB 1407 projects. All project funding changes approved by the Judicial Council will be presented to the Governor and the Legislature in the spring of 2012. As individual project expenditure information will not be available until late December, the Governor's Budget includes a single line item "Court Construction Expenditure Plan" to reflect the estimated expenditures for 2011-12 and 2012-13.