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Parisa Dehghani-Tafti

Commonwealth's Attorney

Arlington County Commissioners Court

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Parisa Dehghani-Tafti is the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church, first elected in November 2019 and re-elected in 2023. She brings a twenty-year record of criminal justice reform as an innocence protection attorney, a public defender, and a law professor. Her core philosophy is that safety and justice are complementary values, with a primary responsibility to treat crime as crime and people as people.

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