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   William Monroe Palmer II, a member of the Sheriff’s Department Oversight   
   Board in San Francisco, was arrested on Thursday on a bevy of sexual assault   
   charges, including forcible sodomy, assault and sexual battery.   
      
   Palmer, 53, was booked in San Francisco county jail on Thursday morning on   
   five felony charges: Sodomy by use of force, assault with intent to commit a   
   felony, false imprisonment, assault with force likely to commit great bodily   
   injury, and sexual    
   battery by restraint.   
      
   San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Robert Rueca said that   
   Palmer’s arrest stemmed from an alleged assault first reported on Aug. 30.   
      
   Palmer was previously incarcerated for 31 years for trying to rob an off-duty   
   police officer at gunpoint when Palmer was 17. But he advocated for his own   
   release, and was released from prison in 2019; he is currently on parole.   
   Booking logs show he was    
   also arrested in May for a parole violation.   
      
   As an advocate for reforming the criminal justice system who had experienced   
   incarceration first-hand, he was a popular choice for the nascent sheriff’s   
   oversight board in 2021. He was recently reappointed to the board this summer.   
      
   “I’ve been supportive of William Palmer. I was aware of that first arrest,   
   and it was from a former girlfriend — and her story was fabricated,” said   
   Julie Soo, Palmer’s colleague on the sheriff’s oversight board.   
      
   Though Palmer was booked in county jail in May, he has no apparent open   
   criminal cases. He has not yet been charged since his arrest on Thursday.   
      
   “I’m hoping that none of this is true,” Soo said.   
      
   Since its launch, the oversight board has been mired in conflict among its   
   members, and Palmer has often been seen as a voice of reason. His colleagues   
   designated him as the board’s liaison to the public and the media.   
      
   He is the executive director at Life After Next, a re-entry program for the   
   formerly incarcerated, and served as a member of the city’s Reentry Council   
   on the Sentencing Commission. He has also worked with the Jail Justice   
   Coalition.   
      
   This is a breaking story and will be updated as possible.   
      
   https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/william-palmer-on-sheriffs-over   
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