Fairfax Superintendent Uses Taxpayer-Funded Drivers Camouflaged as Security Officers

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | August 5, 2025

Last week, I reported that Fairfax County Public Schools’ superintendent, Michelle Reid, has posted a job vacancy for a taxpayer-funded personal bodyguard. This “executive protection agent,” would be one of Queen Reid’s many job perks in addition to her $424,146 annual salary and $12,000 car allowance.

Like many of the district’s taxpayers, I find such flagrant spending inappropriate and corrupt, even for a competent superintendent. In my last article, I posed the question, “What’s next for Reid – a cook and a driver?

Soon after publication, a Fairfax County Public Schools’ employee informed me that Reid already has two drivers on call.

Over the weekend, I contacted Fairfax County Public Schools’ media relations office for clarification. In my inquiry and request for comment, I wrote, “I have been informed that two Fairfax County Public Schools’ employees classified as Security Officer (B)s, which are supposed to be school-based employees, are assigned to Gatehouse as Dr. Michelle Reid’s personal drivers. Would you like to comment?”

The media relations officer responded with the following message on the same day, “Any suggestion that Dr. Reid has been provided permanent, assigned personal drivers would be entirely false.”

In my experience with the district’s headquarters, Queen Reid’s minions are generally crafty with their words. The words “permanent” and “assigned” are particularly interesting. My source had informed me that the drivers are based in the district’s Safety and Security Office and are on call at Reid’s discretion. So, I responded to the media relations office, “More specifically, are any Security Officer (B)s who are, for example, the subordinates of Chief Safety & Security Office Manager Christian Fuller and Chief Brian Lambert ever used as Dr. Reid’s drivers?”

Up to publication, the media relations officer has not responded to my question. It’s safe to infer until they tell us otherwise, that although the security officers might not be “permanent” drivers, or holding a properly “assigned” job title, taxpayers are paying security officers to drive the superintendent from one place to another.

This article will be updated with any new information from Fairfax County Public Schools.

I guess the real question we’re left with is not whether Queen Reid will acquire a driver because it appears that she already has two of them camouflaged as the district’s security officers. Rather, how much of an appetite for local politicians’ and county officials’ corruption do Fairfax County’s taxpayers have?

And if we still have a remaining tolerance for fraud, waste, and abuse, then what’s next? Is Queen Reid soon to also acquire a butler and a chef at our expense?

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is a contributor for The Federalist, the Washington Examiner, and IW Features; a mother in Fairfax County, Virginia; an author; and the Fairfax chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network. Her articles have also appeared in Fox News Digital, National Review, Washington Times, The Daily Signal, and Townhall.

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