Moms for Liberty unleashes AI watchdog on 13,000 school districts to flag controversial policies before votes
Moms for Liberty will be using AI to keep track of school board agendas across the country, attempting to provide parents with advance warning about controversial policies before they are voted on. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Moms for Liberty is deploying artificial intelligence to monitor school board agendas across more than 13,000 school districts nationwide, giving parents advance warning about controversial policies before local officials vote on them, Fox News Digital has learned.
"The Biden admin targeted our parents for showing up to school board meetings, but we were just getting started," Tina Descovich, Moms for Liberty co-founder and CEO, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Wait and see what happens when parents receive timely information about what is being discussed at their school board meetings."
The new system, dubbed M4L AWARE, which stands for Agenda Watch, Alert, Response, and Engage, scans school board agendas every 12 hours for issues involving diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), gender policies, curriculum changes and Title IX, according to the parental rights organization.
Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich speaks during the Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors national summit at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown on June 30, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
When the system flags a high-priority item, it sends local Moms for Liberty chapters a plain-language summary and a ready-to-share alert designed to help parents organize before a school board meeting.
The organization says its system is designed to give chapters a window of roughly 72 hours to mobilize parents, sign up for public comment and scrutinize proposals before board members cast their votes.
"Moms for Liberty is harnessing AI to increase the oversight of school boards across the nation, empowering parents like never before," Descovich said. "For five years, we’ve asked parents to show up at school board meetings, and they have. The problem is that it’s incredibly time-consuming to sift through thousands of pages in agendas each week, and school districts count on that."
Descovich said the new AI tool will allow Moms for Liberty members and other parents to quickly identify concerning policies buried deep within school board agendas, even when they are released late in the week, giving families time to respond before officials take action.
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The announcement of the tool comes on the heels of a Monday report from the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group that the FBI opened 25 "Guardian assessments" involving parents following then-Attorney General Merrick Garland's Oct. 4, 2021, memorandum addressing threats against school officials.
The report said that an FBI whistleblower disclosed that one mother was investigated following a tip that noted she was a gun owner and belonged to what was described as a "right-wing mom's group." A separate joint DOJ-Education Department release identified that organization as Moms for Liberty.
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The Working Group concluded that the memo, according to the DOJ press release, "was the product of pressure exerted by the White House and wrongly weaponized the Department of Justice against parents."