Between March 11 and June 27, 2025, the Education Department‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dismissed 3,424 complaints — an ...

The complaint and investigation data show the toll of mass layoffs, advocates argue. The department says OCR “is vigorously ...

The department honed in on a policy by the Department of Human Services requiring managers to provide justification for ...

Eleven leading education research organizations are calling on the U.S. Department of Education to take immediate action to finalize the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) for the 2025-26 school year ...

"Five Areas Where The Office For Civil Rights Can Improve Its Proposed Changes To HIPAA, And Advance Interoperability", Health Affairs Blog, May 19, 2021 . DOI: 10.1377/hblog20210514.54051 ...

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday eliminated numerous civil rights offices, ending oversight of its immigration policies and avenues for public complaints. The department said it was ...

Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced Tuesday were roughly 240 in the department’s Office for Civil Rights, according to a list obtained and verified by The Associated Press. Seven ...

They reframed their work as less about protecting civil rights and more about keeping the department out of legal trouble. None of it worked. On March 21, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shut down the ...

The Office for Civil Rights in Education is an arm of the administrative state that has often inflamed the culture wars in the last decade. So it was only a matter of time before it jumped into ...

"Harvard is far from indifferent on this issue and strongly disagrees with the government's findings," Harvard spokesperson Jason Newton said.

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

It has been over six months since President Biden’s inauguration, but he has yet to name a Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS ...