# Steve Descano **Steve Descano** is the Commonwealth's Attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia, elected in 2019 as part of the [[Progressive Prosecutor]] wave on a platform of ending cash-bail requests and declining to seek the death penalty. He was a founding member of the **[[Fight Against Federal Overreach]]** coalition launched January 28, 2026, and supplied its bluntest public framing — that its members are in the "find out" business, the coalition's acronym being reverse-engineered from the cruder phrase. > [!note] Stub > Expand: the 2019 and 2023 elections, Virginia's prosecutor-reform politics, his office's policies, and his role in FAFO.