San Francisco’s former Human Rights Commission executive director may have coordinated the hiring of her sister to run a city-funded youth program that her department failed to properly oversee.
Sources identified the officer as Michael Petuya, a third-generation San Francisco police officer who is featured in department campaigns seeking new recruits.
The move follows a Chronicle investigation into William Palmer, president of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board, that raised questions about his ethics.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office and other city agencies said the contract is a temporary, emergency solution to ensure that children have a place to learn and stay safe this summer.
Formerly incarcerated, William Palmer was supposed to bring a unique voice to a panel overseeing the sheriff’s office. But several women have accused him of abuse during a chaotic tenure.
James Spingola, the former director of the San Francisco nonprofit Collective Impact, wore a mask and balaclava as ex-Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis pleaded not guilty.
A public safety giant wants the SFPD to undo a nearly $10 million contract won by its competitor after it was revealed that both companies had received ethically questionable financial requests.
An alleyway fight between a man and Lurie’s police security detail has spawned multiple investigations as well as criminal charges against the suspect.
The San Francisco Police Department placed William Sanson-Mosier on leave Thursday as the Chronicle probed his emails to tech companies that did business with the department.
Former San Francisco nonprofit CEO Gwendolyn Westbrook was charged with stealing $91,000 and misusing $1.2 million in public funds meant for homeless services, prosecutors said.
If Trump tried to block outside investigators from probing a killing by a federal agent in California, the state would be ready to fight. That was the message issued by the state’s attorney...
The city attorney’s office asked a judge to set aside a decision by a hearing officer and cut Collective Impact off from city funding for the remainder of a previously imposed five-year term.
Two former employees of a nonprofit that runs a San Francisco homeless shelter are charged with allegedly carrying out a fraudulent scheme that cost the city more than $115,000 in taxpayer funds.
After an outage took out power to a third of the city, PG&E set up huge generators in the Richmond. Residents say the noise keeps them up at night — with no answers about when it will end.
