Rob Poggenklass

Police and safety are not the same. Jails and safety are not the same. Prisons and safety are not the same.

Glenn Youngkin is either lying about the arrests or shipping untold Virginians off to a federal gulag, and he doesn’t think you deserve to know which one. Seems bad. pilotonline.com/2025/07/12/va-…

Hey @NickMinock, did you consider talking to LAJC or anyone else familiar with this legislation before printing this fabrication in your story? Repealing presumptions against bail did not prevent anyone from being held on a charge. (If you’re interested in truth.)

ICE was in the Fairfax Co. Courthouse this week. Their visit appeared to be welcomed & facilitated by the Sheriff. ICE waited until clients were separated from their att’ys to detain them, shuttle them off in unmarked vehicles, then laugh at those who asked what was going on 1/3

Our friends at @JusticeFwdVa opposed the expansion of flock license plate reader cameras in Virginia for this exact reason! We know once you expand surveillance technology, that technology will always be used to surveil more people than orginially advertised.

🎉FINALLY! "We hold that Appellant has a meritorious Schlup claim for actual innocence...." WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT. Today is a tremendous day for #JustinWolfe and his family! Justin was on #Virginia's death row for years. #StopExecutions #InnocenceMatters #JusticeForJustin…

Let’s all be clear: the position of the Flock Safety bill proponents was that regs akin to Richmond’s would prevent ICE from accessing ALPR data. @JusticeFwdVa explained in painstaking detail why this wasnt true. They kept pushing their bill anyway. They were so incredibly wrong

Regulation is good until you realize the federal government has stopped complying with the law. wric.com/news/local-new…

"It's a major problem that agencies will use their point of access to the Flock system to get information in jurisdictions where it is either prohibited by law or the agency is not actively cooperating with ICE." -⁦@rpogge⁩ vpm.org/news/2025-07-0…

Former Chesterfield Commonwealth Attorney Scott Miles worries that murderers will not be convicted because of witnesses being afraid of ICE detaining them at the courthouse. The story he links to found that 10/15 detainments at the courthouse were for traffic offenses

Experts have detailed that the BBB provides for more than $150B to expand surveillance & "immigration" detention. ICE’s annual budget will skyrocket from roughly $3.4B now to $45B until end of 2029—a 365% increase, a figure more than combined funding of all 50 federal prisons.

1 🚨 THREAD: ICE and CBP's increased funding is not getting enough coverage. It's the largest expansion of the power to arrest, cage, and kill in US history. They are building a fascist death machine to disappear immigrants and dissidents. Resist everyday, everywhere.

We tried to warn how this technology could be abused, but too much of this money is in Virginia politics.

As a public defender and a state Senator, l’m hard at work everyday to protect Virginians’ constitutional rights and ensuring fair trials for all, regardless of background or income. @JusticeFwdVa

Attorney General Jason Miyares opens his stump speech similar to Youngkin: says in 2021 Virginia was dying as a state. Says (paraphrasing) the current administration's tenure is a renaissance that Virginia hadn't seen in the state's 400 years of history.

Since we were founded by public defenders in 2017, we’ve ended mandatory jury sentencing, placed unprecedented limits on pretextual policing, capped probation terms & jail time for technical violations, and scores of other needed reforms. Today even more reforms become law. 1/8:

🚨The United States Senate is on the verge of passing a bill that spends TWICE as much $$$ on policing and incarceration as the 1994 Crime Bill. Building detention centers, enhancing surveillance, hiring more ICE agents, funding local police cooperation with mass deportations. 🚨

Another summer of excuses. Nottoway, Buckingham, Bland, Harrisonburg, Appalachian, Cold Springs, and Deerfield Corrections Centers STILL don’t have air-conditioning. wric.com/news/taking-ac… @vademocrats @vahousegop

Terrific reporting from @404mediaco @PeteDujardin @CardinalNewsVA and pressure from local and state advocates like @JusticeFwdVa pushed Flock Safety’s CEO to write this defensive explanation. The public has spoken. We don’t want mass surveillance. flocksafety.com/articles/state…

A 12-pack of Coke is $11.49 at my local @HarrisTeeter. Thanks, Obama.

The Constitution is not a minor inconvenience to be ignored at whim but the operating system for our government and the binding covenant of the American people.