The longtime provider of substance use disorder treatment services wants to buy a property on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; its plans triggered passionate testimony about unsafe communities getting no help from the city.

Cumming apologizes for the video. City rules require complaints going before the Ethics Board to be kept confidential, but this one was leaked to the media.

The judge’s decision undercuts the administration’s broader efforts to limit the inspector general’s access to city records.

What if blocking one of her subpoenas is “perceived as . . . denying the IG the opportunity to engage in their duties – that’s not a conflict?” Circuit Court Judge Pamela White asked.