San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu isn’t giving up the legal battle he lost against a nonprofit at the center of an ethics scandal over its deep ties to a former city official.
Two months after a hearing officer rejected his arguments that the nonprofit Collective Impact should be barred from city funding for allegedly bribing former San Francisco Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis, Chiu is appealing the decision.
In a Christmas Eve filing, Chiu’s office asked a San Francisco Superior Court judge to set aside the October decision by the hearing officer, Andrea McGary, and cut off Collective Impact from city funding for the remainder of a five-year term his office previously imposed…