Secretary of the Commonwealth Constituent Services

Flag Orders

Governor's Flag Order in Memory of the Lives Lost and those Injured in the Lewiston, Maine Shooting

Pursuant to President Biden’s Presidential Proclamation to lower the United States flag, I do hereby order that the flags of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia are to be flown at half-staff over the state Capitol and all local, state, and federal buildings and grounds in the Commonwealth of Virginia in memory of the lives lost and those injured in the Lewiston, Maine shooting.

I hereby order that the flags shall be lowered immediately on Thursday, October 26, 2023, and remain at half-staff until sunset on Monday, October 30, 2023.

Ordered on this, the 26th day of October, 2023.