A new audit of payments made by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission under former chief Sheryl Davis found that it misused more than $4 million in taxpayer dollars — spending the city controller deemed “frivolous, unethical and unjustifiable.”
The audit, released Tuesday by the controller and city attorney, concluded that the department’s routine and pervasive disregard for city purchasing controls and policies undermined the essential services it provided, often to needy communities.
The audit reviewed $6.3 million in purchases that the department made outside city contracts, which are subject to less oversight, over roughly four years beginning in summer 2020…