Supes Call For City Attorney Investigation Of Angus McCarthy, Propose Ballot Measure To Remake Dept. Of Building Inspection

San Francisco CA

29 September, 2021

6:13 PM

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By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local September 28, 2021 A pair of supervisors today called for a City Attorney investigation of allegations made in a Saturday Mission Local story. That story documented a series of permit irregularities at both the home and on properties owned by Angus McCarthy, the longtime president of the Building Inspection Commission, which oversees the Department of Building Inspection. The Saturday Mission Local article also documented McCarthy's statement in a Sept. 20 sworn deposition in which he acknowledged sending material written by Department of Building Inspection personnel to his private builder colleagues at the Residential Builders Association to be edited and redrafted. Today's formal request, made by Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Aaron Peskin, calls for the City Attorney to "investigate and report to the Board of Supervisors on allegations and improprieties and possible conflicts of interest by Building Inspection President Angus McCarthy as reported in Mission Local on September 25, 2021." To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.