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If approved by the board, the charges would then be forwarded to the Ethics Commission, before a final board vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The city’s investigation, conducted by the San Francisco Inspector General, was initiated upon request by Supervisor Stephen Sherrill — after the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>published a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/william-palmer-san-francisco-sheriff-22395646.php\">report\u003c/a> this summer alleging that Palmer picked up a woman experiencing a mental health crisis off the street, pressured her to have sex and gave her drugs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-1321806616-scaled-e1790379502794.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101508\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Palmer speaks in a business pitch competition at Solano State Prison in Vacaville, California, on Dec. 17, 2015. Before his tenure on the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board, Palmer was an entrepreneur and artist while incarcerated. (Michael Macor-The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Palmer was not arrested and is not facing criminal charges. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The watchdog’s report detailed a December 2025 traffic stop by San Francisco sheriff’s deputies in the Tenderloin for Palmer’s expired registration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During the 51-minute stop, Palmer repeated that he was the president of the Oversight Board at least six times, referenced his relationship with Sheriff Paul Miyamoto and threatened retaliation against the deputies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report also mentioned that San Francisco Police held Palmer in custody for questioning in July, as part of an investigation into a missing woman. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report identified the woman as connected to the \u003cem>Chronicle \u003c/em>story, and alleged Palmer used his position to attempt to influence and intimidate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you’re in a leadership position, you have to hold yourself to a higher standard,” said Sherrill, who initiated the motion to suspend Palmer. “I think it’s incredibly important for the San Francisco government to be able to look at a situation and honestly say, ‘This is not right.’ We can do better than this.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Palmer did not immediately respond to a KQED request for comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, in a previous statement to KQED, he said he takes his “responsibilities as a public officer seriously,” and disagrees “with significant factual and legal conclusions contained” in the watchdog report.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Palmer was appointed to the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board, based on his personal experiences with the carceral system. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now 55, Palmer spent more than 30 years in prison for a crime he committed as a teenager. He was released in 2019, and a court of appeal later found that his sentence amounted to excessive punishment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He’s since served as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/sf-generational-incarceration-jail-17827159.php\">vocal advocate\u003c/a> for people in jails.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Palmer’s tenure on the board, however, has involved multiple run-ins with law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/sfpd-20120221-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11999135\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/sfpd-20120221-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/sfpd-20120221-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/sfpd-20120221-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/sfpd-20120221-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/sfpd-20120221-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/sfpd-20120221-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A San Francisco police car patrols the Mission on Feb. 12, 2021. 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Both rules were broken on May 22, on a supervisor’s order,” said Anthony Label, one of the women’s lead attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not rogue conduct. It is institutional policy, carried out by an agency that then punished the women who spoke up.”[aside postID=news_12084403 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260520-GGB-PROTEST-01-KQED.jpg']The lawsuit follows an official claim the women filed with the city in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office denied that male deputies strip-searched the women and said that the searches were conducted individually in a private setting. They said the Department of Police Accountability had conducted an investigation, and its findings were consistent with the Sheriff’s Office’s initial review. An administrative review process is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff’s Office has continued to work collaboratively with the Department on the Status of Women, the Human Rights Commission, the Department of Police Accountability, the Sheriff’s Oversight Board, the Public Defender’s Office, and other community stakeholders to review services and resources available to female inmates and identify opportunities to expand access to supportive programming and city services,” the department said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City attorney spokesperson Jen Kwart said the office would respond to the suit in court once it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that women continued to be strip-searched following the May 22 incident, after court appearances, medical appointments and family visitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman alleges that in June 2025, she was subjected to an “orifice search,” and in July, women said that deputies used flashlights to illuminate the interior of their genitalia. Another plaintiff said that in September 2025, male deputies entered her hospital room while she received pelvic examinations and while she was breastfeeding her newborn son, despite medical personnel asking them to leave. According to the suit, the deputies said they were required to maintain a line of sight of the woman per the agency’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks during a rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, when two women organized others to file tort claims over the policy violations, they were placed in segregation, and that in November, Ibarra threatened to continue the searches if the women continued “disrespecting officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite their fear, despite the retaliation, despite the fact they have to be in the very county jail with the perpetrators who did this, they still are speaking out,” said Elizabeth Bertolino, another of the women’s attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not going away,” she said. “This is not going to be slipped under the rug. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not bugs in the system, these are the system, and we are here today to challenge that system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that in May of 2025, 12 sheriff’s deputies entered the women’s housing unit at the San Francisco jail at 425 Seventh St. and ordered women into the common area, where they were instructed one by one to participate in a search under armed guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women say they were forced to remove their clothing, lift their breasts and spread their buttocks in front of male deputies, who were stationed as “partitions” on the staircase and upper tier of the housing unit, and in other positions with direct views of the women being searched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Formerly incarcerated people and advocates rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Multiple women allege that they heard the supervising officer, Sgt. Ibarra, instruct a deputy not to deactivate her body-worn camera during the searches. According to their reports, Ibarra told the women that the footage might be “used for training purposes,” but would blur their genitalia before the footage was “released publicly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco sheriff’s policy manual \u003ca href=\"https://sfsheriff.com/sites/default/files/2025-08/2025%20August%20Custody%20and%20Court%20Operations%20Policy%20Manual.pdf\">states\u003c/a> that strip searches should be conducted in a private location, and that all employees present should be of the same gender identity as the person being searched, except in emergency situations. Department policy also prohibits body-worn cameras during such searches, the suit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff’s own policies forbid male staff during women’s strip searches and forbid body cameras during them. Both rules were broken on May 22, on a supervisor’s order,” said Anthony Label, one of the women’s lead attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not rogue conduct. It is institutional policy, carried out by an agency that then punished the women who spoke up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The lawsuit follows an official claim the women filed with the city in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office denied that male deputies strip-searched the women and said that the searches were conducted individually in a private setting. They said the Department of Police Accountability had conducted an investigation, and its findings were consistent with the Sheriff’s Office’s initial review. An administrative review process is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff’s Office has continued to work collaboratively with the Department on the Status of Women, the Human Rights Commission, the Department of Police Accountability, the Sheriff’s Oversight Board, the Public Defender’s Office, and other community stakeholders to review services and resources available to female inmates and identify opportunities to expand access to supportive programming and city services,” the department said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City attorney spokesperson Jen Kwart said the office would respond to the suit in court once it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that women continued to be strip-searched following the May 22 incident, after court appearances, medical appointments and family visitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman alleges that in June 2025, she was subjected to an “orifice search,” and in July, women said that deputies used flashlights to illuminate the interior of their genitalia. Another plaintiff said that in September 2025, male deputies entered her hospital room while she received pelvic examinations and while she was breastfeeding her newborn son, despite medical personnel asking them to leave. According to the suit, the deputies said they were required to maintain a line of sight of the woman per the agency’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks during a rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, when two women organized others to file tort claims over the policy violations, they were placed in segregation, and that in November, Ibarra threatened to continue the searches if the women continued “disrespecting officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite their fear, despite the retaliation, despite the fact they have to be in the very county jail with the perpetrators who did this, they still are speaking out,” said Elizabeth Bertolino, another of the women’s attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not going away,” she said. “This is not going to be slipped under the rug. We are not asking for apologies. We are asking for change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Mayor Daniel Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">budget\u003c/a> of $15.9 million, recently approved by the board of supervisors after months of contentious negotiations, will see cuts of around 1,400 city jobs and $100 million in grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One vacancy was created last year when inaugural member Jayson Wechter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014666/inaugural-member-of-sf-sheriffs-oversight-board-resigns-citing-agencys-general-dysfunction\">resigned\u003c/a>, citing frustrations with the board’s inefficient hiring process. Wechter said it took a year to find an inspector general, and he accused the board of hostility and failure to adhere to ethical conduct recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the Wednesday meeting where the commission recommended the board’s elimination, San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton, who sponsored Proposition D, told KQED that “we can’t just override the voters.”[aside postID=news_12014666 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1-1020x765.jpg']He referred to the City Charter, which maintains that any initiatives or amendments “shall not be subject to veto, or to amendment or repeal except by the voters, unless such initiative or declaration of policy shall otherwise provide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that the voters voted on and voters supported,” Walton said. “So you can’t just eliminate a charter commission without the voter approval.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s task force also recommended that if the board is eliminated, the Department of Police Accountability, a separate entity, could absorb its responsibilities. Walton called that a “poor recommendation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department of Police Accountability doesn’t even have the capacity right now to adequately provide oversight for the police department,” he said. “Let alone adding the additional services of the Sheriff’s Oversight Board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Wednesday meeting, Wechter appeared alongside other citizens to push back against the task force’s elimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the SDOB is eliminated, we will be going against national trends,” Wechter said. “We will be moving backwards and setting a very bad example.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoel Haile, the ACLU of Northern California’s director of the criminal law and immigration project, said that he has received multiple reports in recent years of assault and negligence by jail staff. 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"content": "\u003cp>Paul Miyamoto, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Democratic sheriff, is defending his endorsement of Chad Bianco, a Trump-supporting Republican sheriff in Riverside County running to be California’s next governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyamoto’s name appears on Bianco’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://biancoforgovernor.com/endorse-chad/\">website \u003c/a>for endorsements — first \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/chad-bianco-paul-miyamoto-california-governor/\">reported \u003c/a>by Mission Local — along with the names of three dozen other California sheriffs. (The only other Bay Area sheriff on that list is Solano County Sheriff Tom Ferrara.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED on Friday, Miyamoto said he and other sheriffs signed a letter of support for Bianco, but his endorsement has limits: as a professional courtesy to a fellow law enforcement officer and member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calsheriffs.org/%5C\">California State Sheriffs Association\u003c/a>, the nonprofit professional organization representing all of California’s 58 elected sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t support him in terms of political affiliation or political party,” Miyamoto said. “This is coming from the fact that we’re both sheriffs working together in a sheriffs’ association.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyamoto’s endorsement raised eyebrows considering Bianco’s staunch support of President Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/riverside-county-sheriff-says-hes-ready-to-put-a-felon-in-the-white-house/\">saying\u003c/a> in a video posted to social media last year, “I think it’s time we put a felon in the White House” as Trump sought a second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-1536x944.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-2048x1258.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-1920x1180.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco addresses supporters of U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally in Coachella, California, on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bianco was also previously a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043651361/oath-keepers-california-sheriff-chad-bianco-january-6-us-capitol\">paying member of the Oath Keepers\u003c/a>, one of the groups responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, among several other \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/06/riverside-california-sheriff-chad-bianco-coroner\">scandals\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco was elected Riverside’s sheriff in 2018. By then, the department had already been under a federal consent decree for two years due to conditions in the county jails. That decree remains active to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, at least 19 people died while held in Riverside County detention facilities. In response, Bianco used social media to shift blame from his department, even blaming the deceased and their families.[aside postID=news_12050346 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg']The following year, California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-launches-civil-rights-investigation-riverside-county\">announced\u003c/a> his office was opening a civil rights investigation into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office to determine if it had “engaged in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional policing amid deeply concerning allegations relating to conditions of confinement in its jail facilities, excessive force, and other misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a video posted to social media, Bianco — wearing his sheriff’s uniform — has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/riverside-county-sheriff-says-hes-ready-to-put-a-felon-in-the-white-house/\">called Bonta\u003c/a> “an embarrassment to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A board vote on Wednesday to establish whether Riverside County needed an oversight committee and inspector general to oversee the sheriff’s office failed. Bianco called the move \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2025-07-30/riverside-county-sheriff-oversight-committee-motion-fails\">“anti-law enforcement,”\u003c/a> according to NPR affiliate KVCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said he considers Bianco a friend whom he connected with through the quarterly meetings of the state sheriff’s association, and sees benefits in his relationship with Bianco, even if they don’t see eye-to-eye politically. 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