William Palmer II

President, San Francisco Sheriff's Department Oversight Board

We identified Palmer’s voice at 10 meetings.

10 of 12transcribed meetings with their voice identified

109questions at the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board

9 of 9present at roll calls through Aug 7, 2026, from the clerk

Next Sheriff's Department Oversight Board meeting: Fri, Nov 6, 2:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Three clips, newest first

William Palmer IIMember · Sheriff's Department Oversight Board · Jul 24, 2026 · 1:21:38…what is our right as the board, or the procedures for allowing this board to visit sites that deputies are assigned to without prior notice? Just like pop-up visits.Open the meeting at 1:21:38

“Is there a way that we can better our relationship with the board, especially until we get an IG, to where we can work together on investigations or incidents that happen inside of the jails and the hospitals and wherever sheriff’s deputies are located?”William Palmer IIMember · Sheriff's Department Oversight Board · Sep 4, 2026 · 1:11:23 “What does success look like really in the sense of the numbers for $14 million? How many lives are being saved?”William Palmer IIMember · Sheriff's Department Oversight Board · May 1, 2026 · 51:43

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Every roll call, and Palmer’s other bodies

Present at 9 of 9 roll calls at the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board, roll call through Aug 7, 2026

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Nov 14, 2025 to Aug 7, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 9 of the 12 meetings we hold, through Aug 7, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Sheriff's Department Oversight Board: talk time not compared. Listed on the roster as President, so isn’t compared with the members.

Questions

Palmer asked 109 questions at the 10 Sheriff's Department Oversight Board meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Palmer’s 71 questions to city departments at the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board, 42 went to sheriff, jails and probation.

Who they question: 71 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Sheriff's Department Oversight Board71 questions to city departments

Sheriff's Department Oversight Board: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Sheriff, jails and probation		4259%
Police and sheriff oversight		2332%
City attorney / law department		68%

Neighborhoods Palmer named

One place Palmer named in meetings

Lines where Palmer named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

San Francisco

Chinatown 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Analysis Neighborhoods file (DataSF (City and County of San Francisco)). A dot says the place was named, not where Palmer was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Palmer’s voice

10, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Palmer’s first remark.

Sep 18, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety41.3 minVideo
Sep 4, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety48.6 minVideo
Aug 7, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety41.0 min28:12
Jul 24, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety55.3 min0:10
May 1, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety28.4 min51:39
Mar 6, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety · City workforce and labor14.5 min0:07
Feb 6, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety33.6 min0:09
Jan 9, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety10.6 min39:42
Dec 5, 2025Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety18.3 minVideo
Nov 14, 2025Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety · Commendations, ceremonies and memorials29.5 minVideo

How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Palmer was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets William Palmer II’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Palmer said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Palmer or of San Francisco alone.