(BCN) — A quarterly glimpse at San Francisco’s Whistleblower Program shows the Department of Public Health again leading all departments in total complaints investigated.
The report released Tuesday from the City Services Auditor in the Controller’s Office reviewed complaints of alleged wrongdoing against city employees for the first three months of the 2025-26 fiscal year — July, August and September.
The City Services Auditor investigated and closed 105 complaints during the quarter and received 196 new ones. There were 63 open investigations at the end of September.
Three employees resigned during the investigative process.
The Department of Public Health led the count for the overall number of reports in both this past quarter and the previous four quarters, but the Department of Building Inspection and Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing received far more complaints per full-time employee in their departments over the same period.
The Department of Public Health has led the number of whistleblower complaints every fiscal quarter since at least 2019, according to city data.
In the first quarter of this fiscal year, the Department of Public Health reported 43 of the 196 new whistleblower complaints that were received by the City Services Auditor, which was created by voters in 2003 to investigate allegations of city employees engaging in wrongdoing, conduct performance audits of city departments, and make recommendations to city leaders on improvements.
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