Police Commission declines to sustain charges against Captain Gregory Corrales in long-running 'Fajita Gate' case

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Police Commission voted 6–1 on May 27, 2009, not to sustain disciplinary charges against Captain Gregory Corrales arising from his public comments during an internal investigation known in the record as the "Fajita Gate" matter.

The vote followed closing arguments from the Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC) and the defense, a procedural dispute over whether a taped station meeting should be played during closing argument, and a private deliberation in closed session. The commission also voted 6–1 to withhold specifics of its closed-session deliberations.

OCC counsel Cicely Gray urged the commission to consider print statements attributed to Corrales and argued the captain’s comments—published in Chronicle articles—“tend[ed] to bring discredit upon his department,” were made before…