Russlynn Ali, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, is charged with enforcing a wide range of education equity laws. Ali was a passionate activist in California helping champion educational equity for minorities. Today, as Ali approaches her third year working as assistant secretary for civil rights, she says she has found President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan supportive of her efforts to recharge the agenda of the Office of Civil Rights. Ali has initiated compliance reviews focusing on possible inequities in educational opportunities for students at specific schools and in a variety of school districts, including Los Angeles and Boston. Most recently, Ali's office has initiated an investigation of Penn State University "to determine whether the university has failed to comply" with federal law, specifically, The Clery Act, which requires schools that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep and make public campus crime statistics and campus security information.