VA: Democratic challenger enters Fairfax County sheriff primary race

[RandySF]

A former D.C. police officer and law clerk announced this week he will run against the incumbent sheriff in Fairfax County.

Kelvin Garcia, a Democrat, announced Wednesday his primary campaign against Stacey Ann Kincaid (D), who was elected sheriff in 2013. Garcia said before becoming a law clerk at the Virginia law firm Liberty Legal, he had been an officer with the D.C. Police Department between 2008 and 2019. He also is a freshman football and basketball coach at Herndon High School, he said. Garcia said he launched his campaign over concerns about Kincaid’s management of the county’s adult detention center, which the sheriff oversees.

“Just because someone has been running an organization for 10 years doesn’t mean they have been running it well,” Garcia said of his opponent.

As part of his campaign, Garcia said he would make incarcerated people’s first 30 minutes of calls to family members free. He also said he would house transgender and other gender-nonconforming people in units based on their identities rather than sex, which diverges from the jail’s current policy. In 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by housing a transgender woman with men during her time in jail. Court records show the sheriff’s office has since petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/02/fairfax-sheriff-primary-kelvin-garcia/

[bottomofthehill]

1. Sheriff Kincaid does a prety good job.

Anyone can run, but I see no reason to remove her from office. Fairfax is a very large county with well over a million people, there are a lot of people under her command, it is a difficult job dealing with incarcerated people, the sadness of their family's and the difficulties her workforce face. She has done almost all of the jobs in the organization over her career with the Sheriffs office.