Ex-S.F. human rights chief directed nonprofit to hire sister, organization tells auditors

Former San Francisco Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis may have coordinated the hiring of her sister to run a city-funded youth program that her department failed to properly oversee, according to an audit released Wednesday.

The audit adds another dimension to the alleged mismanagement of city funds by a former official who was once a beloved community leader and powerful force in former Mayor London Breed’s administration and now faces criminal charges for alleged financial misconduct.

It also casts a negative light on the Japanese Community Youth Council, a longtime city partner that continues to receive taxpayer dollars to run the program today, finding that the nonprofit had “deficient fiscal controls.”…

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