Education Department launches End DEI public reporting portal with Moms for Liberty backing

The Department of Education launched a publicly accessible online portal inviting parents, students, and employees to submit reports of what the department defined as illegal race- or sex-based discrimination connected to DEI programs. Moms for Liberty, a conservative parent advocacy group, endorsed the portal and encouraged its members to submit reports about schools and colleges. The portal gave the Office for Civil Rights an intake mechanism tied directly to anti-DEI advocacy networks, blending federal civil rights enforcement with organized political pressure. Legal scholars noted that the department was creating a complaint pipeline in which advocacy organizations could direct their members to generate OCR caseloads targeting specific institutions or programs. Universities received no advance notice of which of their programs had been reported or what specific allegations they faced. The portal functioned as a crowdsourced surveillance system aimed at DEI administrators, grant-funded researchers, and student services offices.