Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
Thousands of census workers, including many temporary employees, are fanning out across America to gather information on the citizenry. This is a process that takes place not only every decade in order to complete the constitutionally-mandated census; but also as part of the continuing “American Community Survey” conducted by the Census Bureau on a regular basis year in and year out.
What many Americans don’t realize, is that census workers — from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee — are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for “the collection of statistics.” If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00.
That’s right — not only can citizens be fined if they fail to answer the increasingly intrusive questions asked of them by the federal government under the guise of simply counting the number of people in the country; but a landlord must give them access to your apartment whether you’re there or not, in order to gather whatever “statistics” the law permits.
In fact, some census workers apparently are going even further and demanding — and receiving — private cell phone numbers from landlords in order to call tenants and obtain information from them. Isn’t it great to live in a “free” country?
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Ann
May 27th, 2010
11:20 pm
This is absolutely NOT what my crew does! Yes, we try to get the information, and will ask a neighbor if we cannot locate an occupant, but enter anyone’s private property? Never! Get your facts straight!!!
Ramon
May 27th, 2010
11:21 pm
If a jack-booted thug, ACORN welfare case, NAMBLA/Democratic Party (pardon the redundancy) activist, Obama-is-messiah sycophant ends up on my porch expecting to get any information out of me, and insists upon trespassing on my property and harrassing me in pursuit of information that I don’t care to divulge, then he’d better pray to his pagan idols that he’s a better marksman than I.
Panagiota Kontos
May 27th, 2010
11:22 pm
I is from the gubmint, and I’s hear to put gas in yo car and pay yo mogage. You be likin this hope and change, or we’s gonna give you a beat down like them Panther brutthas did in Philly.
Welcome to the new world order, first Clinton sold out our manufacturing base, then Bush, Teddy Kennedy and the Democrat Senate launched the Muzzie wars, and now Biraq (ie Chewbacca’s Kenyan mate) is giving us census jobs to pull that 20% unemployment down, before he bails out all his buddies on Wall St. again.
Melanie
May 27th, 2010
11:22 pm
Slightly off topic, but having 1) filled in the bloody mail census form because I did not want people at my house I still ended up with a very persistent census worker at my (rented ) home a few weeks ago who barged in as soon as I answered the door much to my annoyance but I answered his questions to get him out I then got another census worker here tonight (9pm.I have a 4 yr old which it woke up, gee thanks) to check the answers that the previous worker took. What a bloody waste of money. Yes I paid a kings ransom for my US citizenship but I’m actually very happy to be giving up and going home to a flawed, but slightly saner country.
Lucky Star
May 27th, 2010
11:24 pm
This is enough provocation to sit in the hall closet with a loaded 12 gauge to defend against the Gestapho. It would take a couple intruder slayings to stop all this crap/
balddude4
May 27th, 2010
11:25 pm
But yet ICE can’t enter a residence to arrest a known illegal alien, even with an Administrative Warrant! I just LOVE this administration!!!
misinformation #
May 27th, 2010
11:26 pm
WRONG – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment BUILDING in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide names… one OR the other..
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
It’s called reading comprehension people.. not so good these days…
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode13/usc_sec_13_00000223—-000-.html
Don
May 27th, 2010
11:27 pm
I think that everyone should settle down here and not get wound up. Remember the source, this is a blog, written by a blogger who as usual for bloggers didn’t cite a single thing. Outlandish claims are just that, meant to wind people up.
KennyP
May 27th, 2010
11:27 pm
Come into my house…I dare you (said the spider to the fly)
misinformation # 1
May 27th, 2010
11:29 pm
WRONG – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment BUILDING in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide names… one OR the other..
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
It’s called reading comprehension people.. not so good these days…
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode13/usc_sec_13_00000223—-000-.html
misinformation # 2
May 27th, 2010
11:32 pm
WRONG – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment BUILDING in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide names… one OR the other..
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
It’s called reading comprehension people.. not so good these days…
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode13/usc_sec_13_00000223—-000-.html
Stanley Rand
May 27th, 2010
11:34 pm
“The only group of the bunch I support is the ACLU, mostly because they’re non-partisan and generally serve as a check the government’s overreach.”
Non-partisan? The anti-American Commie Lovers Union, non-partisan? The Association of Criminal Liars Union, non-partisan? You are smoking some seriously bad weed!
ericdb
May 27th, 2010
11:35 pm
Here in Montana, the census workers drive around back roads looking for individuals that the government did not, or may not, know about. You know, so they can get their “fair share” of tax money.
True Information #1
May 27th, 2010
11:38 pm
WRONG – Census workers cannot enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide keys to individual units to adhere to the binding statute.
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
It’s called reading comprehension and wisdom sheeple.. not so good these days…
Don
May 27th, 2010
11:38 pm
Bad try Misinformation, I get a 404 on your Cornell URL. Cite the Federal Register please.
True Information #2
May 27th, 2010
11:40 pm
WRONG – Census workers cannot enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide keys to individual units to adhere to the binding statute.
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
It’s called reading comprehension and wisdom sheeple.. not so good these days…
Stanley Rand
May 27th, 2010
11:41 pm
“misinformation” poster…. Ok, you are a census worker, probably an SEIU member, and have a history of psychological disturbances. Calm down. Go to the meds cabinet and get the pills out your doc prescribed. Take them, along with a few deep breathes. Try to get some sleep. You have a long day ahead of you tomorrow knocking on doors facing the fearful prospect of meeting your fellow citizens, so get some sleep.
Sdwat52
May 27th, 2010
11:42 pm
“Yeah, sure. Any census worker can walk into your home, shoot your dog, arrest you, and ship you off to one of those FEMA labor camps. This is exactly the sort of misinformation that makes people with legitimate concerns about federal overreach look like crazy John Birchers. I’m sure the fed was just itching to bestow draconian authority on college kids looking for part time work. Bob, you’re an idiot.”
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Brian
May 27th, 2010
3:30 pm
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God, I just can’t add to that. Lots of comments here were hilarious, but damn Brian – you swept the bases. Yes, I know – I’m now unoriginal…
richard
May 27th, 2010
11:42 pm
This is nuts and can’t be right. Law enforcement needs a warrant signed by a judge to enter.
Evan
May 27th, 2010
11:43 pm
There is so much going on in terms of our total lack of freedom and false veils of rights that it is scary. The purpose of the census is to get personal information from citizens in what appears to be a harmless and non threatening way. In reality the information is entered into a database and matched up with known complying taxpayers to identify those not paying taxes. The census smokes out non tax payers
phx
May 27th, 2010
11:43 pm
There’s something not American about people who distort the truth for the political ends. People like Bob Barr.
Seth's Mummy
May 27th, 2010
11:46 pm
Why so much hate from the right? Barak is just trying to make things fair, for all Americans, even those of us left in the gutter by the excess of the Bushie years.
We need to level the playing field, if that means more taxes, it is our patriotic duty to pay more. If it means that more representation goes to Blue states, than so be it. The worst thing the Palin, teabagger folks are doing is dissenting from the democratic process. Barak was elected by one of the biggest majorities to heal our wounds.
Dissent is the enemy of democracy!
JohnAdams'Cousin
May 27th, 2010
11:46 pm
Yes, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Samuel Adams are my relatives, and I am sure they would say to all those whining about the census…
America! Love it or LEAVE IT!!!
If you can’t handle your doing civic duty without whining like a little B*TCH, THEN GET THE F*#& OUT!!! NOW!!!
Artist
May 27th, 2010
11:47 pm
In my part of the country they found a registered sex offender working for the Census. He has access to my daughters bedroom?? That’s sick??
Stanley Rand
May 27th, 2010
11:52 pm
“There’s something not American about people who distort the truth for the political ends.”
But John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Al Gore, John Edwards and so many others and the rest of the democrats are models of virtue? You are a useful idiot comrade.
JIm in PA
May 27th, 2010
11:55 pm
guess it’s time to screen your calls and not answer the door when you don’t know who is knocking.
Stanley Rand
May 27th, 2010
11:55 pm
“Dissent is the enemy of democracy”
What a moron! Then all you Bush haters ought to be rounded up and put in FEMA camps. Hell, you have a short memory.
Chucky
May 27th, 2010
11:59 pm
E Masters wrote:…This is a pretty liberal reading of the code! The relevant language is at Title 13, Chapter 7, Subchapter II, § 223 of the US Code. The section prevents the owner or manger of “any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building” from refusing to provide a list of the buildings occupants or providing access to “such premises”.
Then he goes on to explain what “providing access to such premises” MEANS. Means to YOU, E Masters. But YOU don’t have the final say about what the Code means. I can only trust a Gov’t Census as much as I trust the Leader of the Gov’t. In this case, Pres Obama. While he is my pres, I DO NOT TRUST ANYTHING about him, sooo, I don’t TRUST “his” Census! That said, I’m an American and my wife and I obeyed the law and filled in the census letter. BUT, when someone CAME BACK to my house, I calmly opened the dorr and told him “none is home” and shut the door.
This happened TWICE already.
Seth's Mummy
May 27th, 2010
11:59 pm
Ah, John Edwards, why mention him? Let the poor man live in peace. His wife is very ill with cancer, and he is busy looking after the kids now. On limited means I might add.
Kerry and Edwards would have been the best duo to ever run our nation. We would have no more wars, plenty of jobs, Christopher Reeve would still be alive and Michael J. Fox would stop shaking from his palsy. A woman’s right to choose would be guaranteed.
Rethuglicans only care about putting people in the grave due to their health.
misinformation # 3
May 28th, 2010
12:00 am
WRONG – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment BUILDING in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide names… one OR the other..
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
It’s called reading comprehension people.. not so good these days…
http://www.law.cor
Kathryn M
May 28th, 2010
12:00 am
This article is so biased. All of the allegations are completely untrue. My parent works for the US Census Bureau as a temporary employee. First of all, census workers do not enter empty apartments. In fact, they are discouraged from entering anyone’s abode, period. They have to get permission from the management just to enter an apartment building, and management is not permitted to open anyone’s door to them. Entering the empty apartment would be trespassing, and the census worker would be punished accordingly.
Secondly, a census worker is NOT permitted to access private information. That’s an invasion of privacy. Obtaining a cellphone number is a violation of privacy. The census worker is allowed to ask a proxy regarding the information that is asked on the census sheet, which is only 10 questions. Census workers are only allowed to obtain published numbers, since anyone may obtain a published number.
The US Census Bureau is not allowed to share any of its information with any other Government agency. That’s a violation of privacy. If a census worker comes across an illegal immigrant and/or terrorist, they’re not allowed to report them. Another violation of privacy.
Census workers are not allowed to show anyone the forms in which people fill out. My parent isn’t even allowed to show their own family. That’s called PII – Personal Identifiable Information. Only a member of the US Census Bureau who has been sworn in is allowed to see it.
Either these alleged census workers are violating their work code, or are not real US census workers. There have been some frauds going from door to door. As I said, the real census sheet has only 10 questions, obtaining how long one resided at their current household, head count, names, relationship, sex, age and date, ethnicity (due to programs for different ethnic groups), where they usually reside, and do they own or rent. One is also not obligated to answer all questions, e.g. phone number.
Let’s not all assume that just because it’s a government-run agency it’s out to get us and exploit us with any and all information it can obtain.
True Information #3
May 28th, 2010
12:02 am
WRONG – Census workers cannot enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide keys to individual units to adhere to the binding statute.
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
It’s called reading comprehension and wisdom sheeple.. not so good these days…
misinformation # 4
May 28th, 2010
12:02 am
WRONG – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment BUILDING in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide names… one OR the other..
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode13/usc_sec_13_00000223—-000-.html
True Information #4
May 28th, 2010
12:03 am
WRONG – Census workers cannot enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide keys to individual units to adhere to the binding statute.
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
It’s called reading comprehension and wisdom sheeple.. not so good these days…
Mark
May 28th, 2010
12:05 am
Lucky for me, my state defines self defense in the home as uninvited entry. They better hope I am not asleep when they do it. Could be a pretty nasty accident and CNN worthy news event.
Stanley Rand
May 28th, 2010
12:05 am
Regarding John Adams… If you know your history you will know that John, once he was in power, had a tyrannical side in trying to shut down those who disagreed with him. Statists have a clear history of trying to silence the opposition. Telling people to get out of the country would be consistent with the weaslie proclivities of your supposed cousin. We are not going anywhere so whining libs better get used to having produce results or getting booted from office. Same thing for the Repubs. By the way, on another topic, was that really the moment when the waters stopped rising?
Census Supervisor
May 28th, 2010
12:05 am
I am a Supervisor for a Southern California district. This article is absolutely untrue. Title 13 does provide that you, or landlords, or property managers may not withhold any information from anyone employed by the Census Bureau, but does NOT give us access to your home without you being present. The information that is required would be names, ages, dates of birth, and race, if known. Any information that would be on your rental agreement. Keeping in mind we do not ask for sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, or any financial information such as income. We do ask whether you rent or own your home, or live there without paying rent. We can not go through your mail, or obtain any information in any other way, other than asking you, or a knowledgeable proxy about this information. Proxy information is deemed less reliable and is only used as a last resort. Phone numbers are required, yes. For verification of information received by the proxy. Either the number to the people at the address in question, or the phone number of the proxy to determine accuracy of what is recorded, and seek any additional information that may have been forgotten. This article is designed to inflame the public, nothing more, the question I have is “Why?” Information on Title 13 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode13/usc_sup_01_13.html
Don
May 28th, 2010
12:06 am
Artist, don’t be choad, as a parent, it’s your resonsibility to take care of your children.
I can see the next post from you, “OGM HE HAS LEGAL RIGHTS TO RAPE MY DAUGHTER.” No, it doesn’t work that way you fat choad!
Just remember that Choad is the best insult ever!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=123105781048388&ref=ts
True Information #5
May 28th, 2010
12:07 am
WRONG – Census workers cannot enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence, and search your belongings to ascertain the number of residents as of April 1.
A manager shall give access to an apartment building AND provide keys to individual units to adhere to the following binding statute.
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
Per administrative law, the census worker is allowed to obtain refreshment from the legally entered domicile, including water, soft drinks and sandwiches. At this time, the OMB is forbidding census workers to use private domicile appliances.
It’s called reading comprehension and wisdom sheeple.. not so good these days…
Ghostsouls
May 28th, 2010
12:07 am
Ok, question………..If NO ONE IS HOME…who the hell are they gonna count???? People in the pictures, go thru your private photo albums, go thru your important papers, looking for birth certificates and such….? Why don’t they just ask the landlord how many is on the lease? And if they are illegal aliens they probably don’t have social security cards, birth certificates etc…. it’s not a question that the majority of census workers probably won’t enter a house where no one is home, but I am sure people have seen recent reports of people with criminal records and one had sexual assault records, who says they can’t get access thru the landlord and wait for a single lady to get home and pounce out of the closet? And if they do it to an illegal alien, it probably won’t get reported. You know there are always some who ABUSE their authority, and stand behind the rule of law to cover their a$$.
misinformation # 5
May 28th, 2010
12:08 am
WRONG – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment BUILDING in your absence
A manager should give access to an apartment building OR provide names… one OR the other..
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode13/usc_sec_13_00000223—-000-.html
HB
May 28th, 2010
12:08 am
This is outrageous and should never happen; the government continues to take our rights away and most Americans are clueless about what is going on in this country. @jconservative: You obviously did not receive the long form American Community Survey. I did receive this long form, and it is very intrusive. The survey asks a variety of questions involving everything from what time you go to work in the morning to questions about your health.
True Information #6
May 28th, 2010
12:11 am
WRONG – Census workers cannot enter your apartment in your absence
RIGHT – Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence, and search your belongings to ascertain the number of residents as of April 1.
A manager shall give access to an apartment building AND provide keys to individual units to adhere to the following binding statute.
“Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.”
Per administrative law, the census worker is allowed to obtain refreshment from the legally entered domicile, including water, soft drinks and sandwiches. At this time, the OMB is forbidding census workers to use private domicile appliances.
It’s called reading comprehension and wisdom sheeple.. not so good these days…
mogar
May 28th, 2010
12:13 am
I would suggest that would be a very unwise move on their part because if I find them there I’m not going to ask questions. I’m just going to start taking their ass apart.
Stanley Rand
May 28th, 2010
12:14 am
“We would have no more wars, plenty of jobs, Christopher Reeve would still be alive and Michael J. Fox would stop shaking from his palsy.”
I raise Edwards because you fail to see that the dim party is filed with sycophants like Kerry and Edwards who distort the truth for political gain. It was your definition, just applied to your heroes.
Obama was going to just put gas in everyones fuel tanks, but Kerry and Edwards would have prevented war, resurrected Christopher selfish Reeves and healed Michael Fox! Wow, we got shafted then. But seriously, you progressives hate history, you never learn, no matter how many millions die at the hands of your statism.
SparkS
May 28th, 2010
12:15 am
Another thing you might not know is the workers also open street side mailboxes. In 2000 I personally saw one riffling through my mail. This year they placed one of their forms in my mail box. Both actions are violations of Federal law! But they do what they please and the law be damned.
The ONLY ones that can legally open a mailbox are the owner and the USPS letter carrier. That is a fact.
I wrote the Census Director asking how I can charge the worker. Naturally he didn’t have the common decency to reply. Yet more arrogance by those that theoretically work for us all.
George Orwell was early.
UGa2Day
May 28th, 2010
12:16 am
This information is amazing, if true. With the powermad socialists now in charge, I’m sure it is. Look at all of the instances of census takers being convicted felons and sexual perverts.
Hell, if they can fix a sandwich and drink my Cokes, they’ll probably use my bathroom, or ransack my teenage daughter’s room.
Thanks idiots for electing these people.
Bob
May 28th, 2010
12:16 am
You are full of crap. You are apparently looking for visibility.
Don
May 28th, 2010
12:18 am
Clearly if misinformation and trueinformation spam enough they can try to convince people of their claims.
I suspect that it’s one little blogger choad living in it’s mother’s basement.
DourCynic
May 28th, 2010
12:19 am
I work for the census currently & I am a constitutional conservative believe it or not. I lost most of my private sector work within the first 6 months of Obama’s presidency as he specifically targeted the private sector & opportunity’s in it allowing someone like myself to rise to an income of 100,000 to 200,000 thousand eventually. He’s successfully destroying the true middle class his final goal seemingly being two classes, the proletariat & the elite in power. All of this aside the 1st census was not long after the Constitution was written. I didn’t object to $15 dollars an hour plus I wanted to get something back from the same government that I feel has taken so much from me. I also thought working there would show me how things really work as opposed to just gossip or one sided here say.
I routinely tell angry people to give me their names, population & ages & nothing else if they refuse. I explain that giving this “constitutional information” only & neglecting to give any more on Constitutional grounds is a powerful statement. It tells the government that your reasonable but you know your Constitutional rights & can stand by them. It also says that you don’t support the types of legislation (almost exclusively democrat) that use statistical race based census questions to implement programs that require lots of funding. Of course many people don’t mind giving me more information then I need but that isn’t the point. The point is that you should be more worried & upset about Obama’s Czar’s or Janet Napolitano’s shady financial deals with company’s that funded her career at the expense of all Arizonan’s. Or how about Sotomayor or Kagan both socialists, both holding entirely stated unconstitutional opinions on our Supreme Court for life? How about the fairness doctrine which would in effect end free speech? These are the things we should be talking about.
I can tell you factually that I’ve been told to not push people at all. I have been told that I can’t make more then a specified amount of personal contacts. I have been told to avoid entering a persons home if possible unless I feel safe & they invite me in. Many have done the interview at the front door many have invited me in. If I reveal any specific information about people I question I face 5 years in prison & or up to a $500,000 fine. The point is that when it comes down to it, like all branches of government the Census Bureau is unorganized & somewhat inefficient because of people at the top. This is no different then a hundred other branches of government that effect our lives much more making them the real issue.
The most insane thing I have encountered however, is mainly liberal democrats who volunteer the info as well as their intense anger towards the government. I have always bit my tongue because I was on the clock but really these people breeding is a serious danger to society. They vote for politicians that implement race based legislation. The questions in the census that offend these people so much are there to help implement race based legislation which is always Democrat! Ignorance is the greatest danger to this Republic, not me, not the Census Bureau. At least not yet anyway, if I was told to do something unethical I would be flipping out by now. I can assure I haven’t been asked to do anything unethical by this particular branch of government.