In February of 2025, the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney's Office launched its' first-ever Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). The CIU was designed in partnership with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (MAIP), an organization that helps defend or exonerate individuals wrongfully accused or convicted of crimes in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. MAIP has been working to prevent and correct wrongful convictions of innocent defendants for more than two decades, helping secure the release or exoneration of 44 men in the DMV region who have served a combined total of nearly 900 years in prison – time that could've been spent with their family and loved ones. 

The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project has also been instrumental in the passing of 20 pieces of legislation across the DMV. In 2021, MAIP worked with the University of Virginia's Innocence Project Clinic and the Innocence Project to pass legislation that made criminal investigative files in closed cases accessible to the public.