Author's neutrality questioned in Human Rights Commission report


Mayor's office says other factors led to bid to strip some commission powers

 
By Matt Smith on August 15, 2012 - 12:00 a.m. PDT


http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/authors-neutrality-questioned-human/


A little-noticed report supporting a bid by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to diminish the power of the city Human Rights Commission was written by a political ally whose own relationship with the commission has at times been contentious.

In her May report to the city, attorney Mara Rosales wrote that the commission was mismanaged, retaliated against whistle-blowers and did not do enough to make sure local small businesses were awarded contracts with the city, among other things.

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Rosales' May 14 report was especially critical of the commission's executive director, Theresa Sparks, a transgender civil rights activist.