In a midnight decision city officials are calling “absurd,” San Francisco youth and family nonprofit Collective Impact, which was accused of corruption and bribery, emerged triumphant after a series of four hearings, its ability to receive public dollars restored.

But the city attorney’s office is lambasting what it calls a highly irregular move. Administrative law judge Andrea McGary, who was presiding over a case to decide if Collective Impact could receive city contracts, cleared the nonprofit at around midnight Wednesday — just a few hours after she had requested “critical” information regarding the case.

McGary then made her decision before receiving that information and days prior to the deadline she had set for the city and Collective Impact to send it.

Collective Impact’s dire

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