The San Francisco public already knew about the not-all-above-board spending practices of disgraced former Human Rights Commission chief and Dream Keeper program head Sheryl Davis, but a new city audit puts an eye-popping pricetag on it: $4.6 million.
It’s been over a year now since Sheryl Davis resigned as executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC), amid a bombshell report about her apparent use of taxpayer dollars for frivolous expenses like a $10,000 house rental on Martha’s Vineyard. Davis, who was also appointed by former Mayor London Breed to lead the mayor’s Dream Keeper initiative — which was intended to direct more city funds to the city’s historically underserved Black population — now may face more scrutiny after the release of a city audit report detailing the full extent of that unethical spending.
According to the report, prepared by the City Services Auditor within the Office of the Controller, the HRC under Davis’s leadership “demonstrated a pattern and practice of evading existing controls and avoiding scrutiny from city oversight agencies, raising serious concerns about transparency, accountability, and financial integrity.”…