Inspector General

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Role Description

Inspector General - Office of the Controller

Since its creation in 2003 via a voter-approved mandate, the City Services Auditor has been actively and successfully assisting the Controller in fulfilling its mission by providing best in class audit, investigative and analytical services to improve the integrity, economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of government services and functions citywide. The City Services Auditor is legislatively funded annually by two-tenths of one-percent of the City and County’s approximately $16 billion budget.

In November 2024, San Francisco voters passed Proposition C, amending the City Charter to establish the role of Inspector General within the Office of the Controller’s City Services Auditor function. The new Inspector General position will be an additional component to the Controller’s accountability framework, with expanded investigative powers and a broad mandate to address public corruption, focusing on preventing, detecting, and investigating violations of law or policies involving fraud, waste, or abuse, as well as making recommendations regarding city ordinances, rules, regulations, or policies that impact public integrity.

The Inspector General’s mandates and duties include the following:

• Prevent, detect, and investigate violations of law or policy involving fraud, waste, and abuse. Investigate abuse or conflicts of interest related to contracting procedures.
• Review complaints and collaborate with the City Services Auditor on audits, inspections and monitoring.
• Consult regularly with the Ethics Commission, City Attorney, District Attorney, and/or Department of Human Resources to coordinate the departments’ investigative strategies in matters involving fraud, waste, or abuse to the extent feasible.
• Make recommendations to the Mayor’s Office, Board of Supervisors, or any city agency regarding city ordinances, rules, regulations, or policies that impact public integrity.
• Publicly report twice a year to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors.
• Through the Controller’s authority, subpoena or compel testimony from city employees or persons or entities seeking a thing of value from the City such as vendors and nonprofit organizations seeking city grants.
• Through the Controller’s authority, execute search warrants to the extent permitted by the State.