Virginia’s legislature is seeking an investigation into the Virginia Birth Injury Fund, a troubled state agency that was recently robbed of nearly $7 million by an insider. On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, asked the state’s inspector general to conduct a “comprehensive investigation” of the program. The Times-Dispatch recently reported that the agency’s entire finance team walked out after fewer than two months in their roles. Multiple members of the finance team, who declined to speak on the record, alleged that the fund continues to be mismanaged and that another embezzlement is possible.

Martinsville Councilman Aaron Rawls has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against Martinsville City Manager Aretha Ferrell-Benavides and Martinsville Sheriff’s Deputy Reva Keen. The filing stems from Rawls being ejected from a regular council meeting in Council Chambers on March 25. Rawls claims the action violated his rights under the First, Fourth, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In the lawsuit, Rawls claims to have been criticizing the leadership of the city, and declaring his opposition to a pay raise for the city manager during the time allotted for him to speak and, in response, an armed deputy sheriff, acting at the direction of the city manager, seized Rawls and forced him to leave his chair, leave the meeting, and leave the building where the meeting was being held.

Fauquier County Supervisor Daron Culbertson is seeking to sell land he owns in Fauquier County to a data center developer. Culbertson, who could not be reached for comment, owns part of a 39.5-acre parcel of the land the project would be built on, according to the project’s page on the county’s land development online portal. In addition to a zoning amendment, the project would require a comprehensive plan amendment and special exceptions to be built. It would also need a height limitation waiver to allow for the construction of the seven two-story data center buildings. Each of those requests would need to pass through the Fauquier County Planning Commission for recommendation before the project appears before the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors. If that happens, Culbertson will likely have to recuse himself, according to the board’s code of ethics.

A“restitution docket” recently activated through the local legal system to track payments to crime victims. Started in partnership with the Culpeper County Circuit Court, Culpeper County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office and Culpeper County Victim/Witness Office, the docket went live May 30 to focus on enhanced monitoring of defendant restitution payments to crime victims, according to a release.

Town officials have a request in Parksley: Please disregard any embarrassing information in recently released documents showing political maneuverings in the Eastern Shore community. The public was never supposed to see the inner workings of their retaliation campaign against immigrant couple Theslet Benoir and Clemene Bastien. But those documents are now available for anyone to read. After town officials tried to use portions of confidential communications out of context, a judge ruled on April 11, that the full chains of previously confidential emails about Benoir and Bastien are no longer secret. The result is 171 pages of emails and attachments showing a six-month offensive that began when the couple dared to start competing with restaurants owned by town officials’ friends.