San Francisco’s Public Ethics Commission laid out dozens of corruption charges against Sheryl Davis, the city’s former Human Rights Commission head Thursday, as part of an ongoing investigation into her alleged violation of city and state ethics laws.
Davis, who resigned from her role as the agency’s executive director amid a major City Hall corruption scandal last fall, accepted flight upgrades, vacation rentals, support for personal business ventures and a portrait of herself and other gifts totalling nearly $40,000 from nonprofits which received large contracts and payments from the HRC, according to a probable cause determination from Ethics Commission Executive Director Patrick Ford.
Many of the payments were linked to the nonprofit Collective Impact , whose former chief, James

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