Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares may have just been sworn in on Saturday, but has already announced plans related to state’s parole board, a school district splashed in the media last year and vaccine mandates.
On the same day that he was sworn in along with his fellow Republican Gov. Greg Youngkin, Miyares issued a statement announcing investigations into both the Virginia Parole Board and Loudoun County Public Schools.
“One of the reasons Virginians get so fed up with government is the lack of transparency – and that’s a big issue here,” said the statement.
“The Virginia Parole Board broke the law when they let out murderers, rapists and cop killers early on in their sentences without notifying victims.”
According to ABC News 8, the Virginia Office of the State Inspector General was called to investigate the state’s parole board in 2020, “and found that they had violated their own rules and procedures when they granted parole to a man convicted of killing a Richmond police officer in 1979,” and that “that the board repeatedly failed to notify family members of the deceased of the parole hearings.”
Youngkin fired the entire parole board and appointed five new members shortly after he was sworn in, said the outlet.
According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Miyares also fired 30 staffers in his office, including 17 lawyers.
As for the Loudoun County School Board, which was the center of debates around critical race theory and received national attention for sexual assault last year as Youngkin ran for office, Miayres said “Loudoun County Public Schools covered up a sexual assault on school grounds for political gain, leading to an assault of a young girl.”
By Wednesday, Miyares was also prepared to take on federal vaccine mandates. He announced plans to include Virginia in a coalition of 26 other states opposed to U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration mask regulations.
Miyares was raised in Virginia Beach, Va., by his mother, a Cuban immigrant, according to his campaign website. When he won the 2021 election against incumbent Democratic candidate Mark Herring, he became the first Hispanic American to hold a statewide office in Virginia. Previously, he served in the House of Delegates from 2015 to 2021.
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