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On Sept. 12 of last year, the director of San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission, Sheryl Davis, received a call from a reporter. That morning , Davis opened her phone to find that the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Standard had each published damning stories: One revealed that Davis had spent over $10,000 on a home rental for her interns during a trip to Martha’s Vineyard, and the other reported that $1.5 million in Human Rights Commission grants had been directed to the nonprofit Collective Impact.

According to voting and DMV records, Davis shared a home and a car with Collective Impact’s director, James Spingola. It was

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