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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pierider
May 28th, 2010
6:11 pm
Bob isn’t paranoid, he’s just lying through his teeth.
http://www.huliq.com/8738/can-census-workers-enter-your-home-without-your-permission
Bob, most of us bloggers with any integrity offer up the sources of our claims. Do you not have that integrity due to the years you spent as a lawmaker? You think you can make wild claims in this day and age and people will believe your lies just because of your status?
It took me ten seconds to bust your lies wide open. But thanks for playing I googled your BS and your busted! Next contestant please!
GET REAL
May 28th, 2010
6:12 pm
this law has been on the books for a long time and now you are upset GET REAL
Renee Christensen
May 28th, 2010
6:14 pm
Today is May 28th. 2010 and I have just recieved my first visit from a census worker. I have not recieved a form in the mail. She identified herself and verified my address which is posted on entrance to my driveway and also posted on my house. She said it woukld just take a couple od minutes to answer the questions if I had the time. The government already knows my social security number, how many people reside at this address, my birthhdate, how many children I have and all their ss numbers, whether I am a widow or divorced, whether I am currently employed or retired, what my income is, and how much I pay in taxes. Anything else is none of their dammed business unless they are going to tax me for evey bowel movement I have each day. If that’s the case I will gladly ship that off in a bag with them. I told her she was trespassing, which she was because I did not invite her onto my property. I shut the door in her face and do not feel the government has a right to know anything else about me.
tray
May 28th, 2010
6:17 pm
Let me find someone in my apartment looking around when I walk in after being out, Because I will shot them dead on the spot ! low light levels can effect judgement you know !
Linda
May 28th, 2010
6:17 pm
“Watching paranoid conservatives soil their frilly panties is the free entertainment of our age. Especially when they combine it with their ‘we’re the tough guys’ fantasy.” – Albert Corn
This deserves repeating.
Susie
May 28th, 2010
6:21 pm
This is a bunch of garbage. I am a cencus worker. I HAVE NO RIGHT TO ENTER ANYONES HOME NOR IS A LANDLORD REQUIRED TO OPEN UP ANY ONES HOME OR APARTMENT SO I CAN DO A COUNT OF PEOPLE HIDING IN A CLOSIT. THEY ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE US WITH ACCESS TO A LOCKED APARTMENT BUILDING SO WE CAN LEAVE NOTICE OF MISSING CENSUS DATA FOR SAID PLACE.. iT IS ALWAYS NICE IF THEY CAN CONFIRM IF A UNIT WAS VACANT ON APRIL 1,2010 WHICH HAPPENS A LOT.
YES, THERE IS A LAW WHICH SAYS THAT THEY CAN BE FINED UP TO $500. BUT REALLY WHO IS GOING TO DO THAT? SHOW ME A CASE.
Knot So
May 28th, 2010
6:22 pm
You are surpassing O’Riley in rabble rousing! None of what you say here is true. Dude…get the facts before mouthing off. Certain Census workers may be performing in a substandard way but the training they receive does not include the things you allege. You slander all dedicated hard working enumerators who must deal with those who have not preformed their lawful civic duty by answering 10 (ten) simple non intrusive questions. There are way more smartaxxes and belligerent misinformed yahoos behind the doors than are knocking on the doors. Dude …you used to do better than this!
Linda
May 28th, 2010
6:23 pm
The more I read on this thread, the more I’m understanding that fear of the census has become just another symptom of Obamaphobia. Get help. If the government were really out to get you people, they sure wouldn’t have to use the little bit of information they get on those forms from us lowly census workers.
disenchanted
May 28th, 2010
6:26 pm
By law, you only have to answer the first question, and I believe that might be your name. I will give them everything they want to know as soon as barack, barry, steve or whatever his name is divulges his background, college transcripts, birth certificate, answers why his SSN is from Connecticut, why he had multiple SSNs (it is actually illegal to have more than one), etc. etc. Yep he has set the standard. what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
chris
May 28th, 2010
6:28 pm
Census employees are prohibited from entering dwellings.
Census employees are allowed outside your home and it is not trespassing.
The Census is constitutionally mandated, therefore it has just as much weight as any amendment or article.
disenchanted
May 28th, 2010
6:30 pm
For those who state they are census workers. The point is that you can enter anyone’s residence. You can fine the landlord. My question is, if no one is home, how are you going to get answers to any questions? – so what is the point?
Think about it. this is no different than what hitler did, or chavez does, or castro has done in the past.
Collecting information to help people. sure. it is so the democratic party can realign the districts in their favor. nothing more nothing less.
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Linda
May 28th, 2010
6:33 pm
“The reason for the census is to obtain info that is truly none of their business to begin with and for Obama to employ people and waste our tax dollars.” – D
Yes, D, you wouldn’t believe how Obama conspired with our founding fathers to create this little counting project way back in, oh, 1790. That Obama’s a tricky one, don’t tell anybody about his time machine.
I saw it on the internet, it must be true.
tonym
May 28th, 2010
6:34 pm
Mr. Barr I think this is very irresponsible of you and others like you. You continue to feed upon the fear of Government that a lot of Americans have but I wonder where was the fear mongering during the Bush Administration?
During the Patriot Act and the NSA spying program where were all you smaller government, less government intrusion people?
At the same time I am glad you guys exist because when my district state or county gets more government funds that will be just fine with me. Sucka!
Vince In TX
May 28th, 2010
6:38 pm
Why the rage? the insults? the obscenities? The statute reads “access to such premises”. That’s a fact. The confusion is the word “premises”. Does that mean up to the entry? Or past it? Why not clearly spell this out in the code? And why turn into a rabid hate-spewing beast with Internet if you simply do not agree with the premise (so to speak) of this article? Rather than calling Mr. Barr a liar or worse, why not have one of you (with access to whoever is in charge of the census) get the Census Board to issue a statement saying “no Census worker is EVER authorized to enter a home without the resident present”. Simple enough, isn’t it?
By the way, when I use the word “premises” it pertains to the total property, inside and out, not exclusionary of living spaces or domiciles which are rented or leased. “Leave the premises” does not mean “leave my apartment”. It means leave the building, surrounding area, parking area, etc. I’ve never heard of a statute stating “access to such premises” to mean a place to park, walk up or elevator access, but NOT the individual units within living community property. I’m pleased to hear Census takers aren’t trained to enter domiciles. That’s wonderful. But not all Census takers obey each and every little law. “Access to such premises” and a threat of a $500 fine could be enough to get a passkey and unsupervised access to luxuriant-looking apartments or housing.
But this is the government we’re talking about. I’m sure we have nothing to fear.
ziggyhunter
May 28th, 2010
6:38 pm
If there is any passion in this f**ked country, then tell me sense when did the po-po have the right to pull someone over simply by running thier tag as an excuse. That’s what the reality is coming to and quickly. It happened too me in Belmont, NC. As far as the Census, It is none of noone’s business who lives with me. I PAY MY TAXES, SO LEAVE ME ALONE, They get enough out of me.
seanmom
May 28th, 2010
6:41 pm
I bow to no one in my disdain for the current occupant of the White House. I voted for McCain, hoping that something would happen to him and Sarah could be president. I have actually READ the Recovery Act, the Stimulus Bill, and the Health Care bill. I am a conservative. I am considering remaining a Republican, though there will have to be a big change in the way the party itself is run. I work for the Census, and I once respected Bob Barr for his performance in trying to put away the evil that was Clinton (who we now know is the unofficial consigliere for the current Administration.) But this article is beginning to make me think all other “conservatives” are flat-out morons.
Do you WANT to believe a lie? Because that’s what this whole claim is. Read a census manual. Call your local census office and ask why they call and come over more than once. We’re safeguarding YOUR data, idiots! Without inspection, anyone could turn in pages of nonsense, the way ACORN did during the election. But you can’t do that with the Census. Not this year. Lie in your enumeration, and you are terminated. That’s it.
If you want to believe a lie, go ahead, but I sure hope all you paranoid lemmings are purged from the Tea Party movement before someone with real media power discovers you are there. We don’t need your help. We need you to GET help, and get OUT of the movement.
Fr. Seamus O'Toole
May 28th, 2010
6:42 pm
Beloved readers, please ignore all these so-called “census workers” chiming in…they are all paid bloggers of the DNC, SEIU, NAACP or AFL-CIO. They know everything about this new power grap by Soros/Obama, but they are doing everything to confuse the citizens. The law is clearly written to allow entry at-will to all Census bureau workers to your residence, place of business or church.
Ignore anything by those who say they are census workers, they lie and will pay a heavy price for their sins. Please do everything to erase this stain, this obamanation, next November by electing solid conservative, Christian candidates.
doug walk
May 28th, 2010
6:43 pm
under our constitution the census is ONLY allowed to ask you “how many people” live in your house, nothing else, anyone who answers anything else is a fool!
I REALLY, REALLY want a census worker to try and force their way into my house, they will cease to be a census worker or anything else, even the police need a warrant to enter your house!
A lot of americans need to grow some stones!
mikecnj
May 28th, 2010
6:44 pm
to quote Dr. Lecter…
“A Census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans
and a nice chianti…….sucksucksucksucksuck.
seanmom
May 28th, 2010
6:50 pm
Just to make it clear, under the Constitution, the Congress is empowered to run the Census any way it chooses to.
By the way, in India, they are taking their census this year (for an entire year, an estimated one billion people), and everyone is required to SHOW UP and be identified and FINGERPRINTED.
THAT’S where an Obama census will send you in 2020, if you make sure that “conservative” becomes synonymous with “fact-impaired enumerator-shooter.”
Once again. THIS Census belongs to BUSH. The next one will belong to whoever is president beginning around 2014. It’s up to YOU who that is.
Linda
May 28th, 2010
6:52 pm
Yeah, just ignore us “census workers” who are just trying to confuse you, Fr. O’Toole. You are apparently confused enough as it is. Keep that tin foil hat in place, we might steal some of your “thoughts”.
Freaked Out
May 28th, 2010
6:54 pm
As I was reading the words on this page I heard a voice outside my apt window telling a neighbor “Did you know the census workers can enter your apartment without your permission whether you’re there or not?” When I looked out to see who was talking I saw that it was a census worker talking to my neighbor about this very issue.
Linda
May 28th, 2010
6:56 pm
seanmom, I’m glad you’ve got that little crystal ball and can project exactly what the next census will look like 10 years from now, when we’re just scrambling trying to finish up this one. Careful, you might become one of the tin foil hat crowd.
Mike Hale
May 28th, 2010
6:56 pm
Mr. Barr . . . . you are using the privilege of this platform to spread nothing but B.S.! Your knowledge of the procedure of a Census Enumerator is blatantly false. I was a Crew Leader and Enumerator Trainer for the 2010 Census, and NOWHERE in any of the materials does it state that Enumerators have the authority to demand access or entry to living quarters to gather ’statistics’ whether a resident is home or not. Your comment are inflammatory and totally inaccurate. You, Sir (I use the term loosely) should be ashamed of yourself, trying to stir up the Citizens of this fine country with total LIES!
Bloggers, such as yourself, who attempt to portray themselves as professional journalists, are simply “wannabes” who have absolutely no credentials to position themselves as writers of any substance. I challenge you to show me in the materials I used in my job where it says all this garbage you spew. Early in the history of our country they had labels for what you have said; it was called “fear-mongering’ and muck-raking.”
For someone of your ’stature’ (term loosely sued again), to stand up and make these false accusations, is irresponsible!
Linda
May 28th, 2010
7:00 pm
Freaked Out, that is the danger of articles like this. Word gets out and some census workers could believe that if it’s gotten airtime, it must be our policy. I hope that census worker has the sense to talk this over with his/her crew leader before he/she tries anything stupid. That IS NOT the way we do business and we have no authority to do that.
Thank you, Bob Barr and (surely) Faux News for spreading the fearmongering disinformation.
Freaked Out
May 28th, 2010
7:01 pm
Disenchanted “Collecting information to help people. sure. it is so the democratic party can realign the districts in their favor. nothing more nothing less.”
You mean like the Republicans did in the last redistricting?
Stretching districts for 80 miles long by 9 miles wide so they can completely dilute the Democratic vote? Spare me the fake indignation.
Common Sense
May 28th, 2010
7:02 pm
Two points:
1) The law sets a precedent, and the language is important. It does not expressly grant access to individual apartments per se, but the general access it does provide can certainly be abused, as can any law that grants a broad swath of access (i.e. the afore mentioned Patriot Act).
2) Several posters have stated that they worked for the census bureau, and no doubt it allowed them a more complete understanding of what goes on at the lower levels. However, as anyone who has worked in government can attest, it is doubtful they were made aware of the vast majority of policies, authorities or inner workings of the bureau in general. As temporary employees, they are given approximately five days worth of training and then sent off. They are no more a Census Bureau official then a temporary H&R Block employee is an accountant.
Thus being said, I am afraid that said temporary employees will not be a good source of information in regards to understanding the impetus behind this Code.
P.S., I am not sure what census forms many of you received in the mail, but the Survey I got specifically asked VERY intrusive questions. For instance the number of and types of rooms in my house, the education level of every member of my household, whether or not members of my household were mentally disabled, my plumbing situation, etc..
An apartment manager
May 28th, 2010
7:03 pm
I work in the apartment industry, and have been dealing with the census workers for the last few weeks.
We are NOT allowed to let them into anyone’s residence. By doing so, I could lose my job, and it’s never even been a question that a census worker has asked me.
All we can give out is how many people live in the apartment, and whether or not the apartment was occupied on April 1, 2010 by the individuals in the apartment. We are not allowed to give out race information, gender, name or any other information and certainly not allowed to give out a key or permit entry.
The census bureau has to take that information and note that it was given to them by a “proxy” (me) and that they were not able to contact the resident in the apartment.
I’m not sure where this info was gathered from, but I think it’s pretty false!! The only people that can get access to an apartment or rental would be the landlord with sufficient notice of 24 hours, or the police department with a warrant for entry.
ed
May 28th, 2010
7:06 pm
I really had no problems with this years version of the census. Don’t know how many may remember the last one in 2000, but it was totally different and extremely intrusive. I basically refused to submit it, they called, came by and continued to threaten me with major monetary penalties until I finally did submit it but with very carefully vague answers. To my mind, the last one was illegal and unconstitutional. This one, no problem, and I was happy to send it in.
Linda
May 28th, 2010
7:07 pm
Freaked Out, the funny thing is, the paranoid conservatives are creating districts that they’ll lose. If, for instance, they take Michele Bachman’s advice not to answer the census, guess who’s going to be left without a district they can win. Heh, Michele’s district dries up if her supporters don’t exist–then it WILL be enlarged in redistricting, to Democrats’ favor. It’s startling how short-sighted this is for Repubs, if nothing else.
Freaked Out
May 28th, 2010
7:08 pm
Common Sense, I got that long form in the last census. They wanted to know how many bathrooms I had. What I was paying for rent. On and on and on it went. Then I got the joy of having my own personal census stalker. I gave one interview and was shocked by all the personal information they gather. They wanted to know what I ate every day and question after question just like that. She told me she would be back every 2 or 3 months to go through all the same questions.
I never gave another interview.
Linda
May 28th, 2010
7:11 pm
“I am afraid that said temporary employees will not be a good source of information in regards to understanding the impetus behind this Code.” – “Common Sense”
Uh, dude, we are the ones doing the work in question. Our government managers are not the ones going door to door.
Daniel
May 28th, 2010
7:27 pm
Hi. I work for the census and this is just not true. By law, everyone must be counted, but how we do so must respect the privacy rights of our population. For example, we collect information on race and ethnicity, but do not ask citizenship questions. Beyond the number of people in you home, you can decline to answer any questions a door to door enumerator asks you. So, sir, I challenge you to reveal your sources and allow the thousands of people who have read this to come to their own conclusions. Census enumerators do not need access to your house to count you.
Savannah77
May 28th, 2010
7:29 pm
Questions such as these:
“Do you own or rent, and if you own is there a mortgage? Do you sometimes live someplace else?” are no ones business, unless they are up to no good!!
Common Sense
May 28th, 2010
7:32 pm
As I stated, much as your local H&R Block representative does most of the work, but has very little insight into what is actually going on.
Or a better analogy perhaps would be a soldier in the army, he/she of course does 90% of the actual work, but has little say or understanding as to the why. Again, standard government type of arrangement, and honestly once you learn something they change it within a year or so anyway. Bureaucracies inevitably lead to confusion, once the bureaucrats have become proffesional politicians.
US Patriot
May 28th, 2010
7:35 pm
First off, I agree that Google and many others keep your info. I also agree that the government is TOTALLY overstepping THEIR bounds. I have seen many arguments on here. Just because you are a census worker does NOT mean that EVERYONE adheres to what they are suppose to do, On many occasions, the power that people THINK they have goes straight to their head and is abused as evidenced in the United States government.
I miss the way America USED to be and I am afraid that I will never see her again.
I am all for the constitution and apply it to every facet of my life. Rights and freedoms comes with responsibility. Such as, the Freedom of Speech, I use it but have the responsibility to look around to see if I am abusing the right of someone else NOT to hear specific words that I might say. Freedom to dress how I want, but I have to responsibility to make sure it is moral so as not to incite a rapist, corrupt a married man and/or a child whose parents are raising them the right way. These are the things that everyone is forgetting.
The government is way to big and both the Democrats and Republicans have the same agenda. Just different view points on how to achieve the same long term goals.
I answered my census with enumeration only and beside that…AMERICAN. So far, no one has come to my door and if they do, I will kindly tell them I sent it in, repeat what I put on the census and close my door.
For the person(s) that asked why us conservatives didn’t stand up to the Patriot Act…I DID…Just as I am standing uo to the government trying to control the internet, and take away the second amendment. Just as I am standing up to ENDA because it infringes on the rights of private business owners who do NOT want to hire a homosexual, transsexual, transvestite because they do not want to be affiliated with this kind of immorality! I consider everything and think very carefully about EVERYTHING and what is right or wrong.
I am free to listen to what view points I WANT to. I don’t need someone to give me the opposite argument forced on me. I know where to find the opinion of the other side…just as I know if I am out of groceries, I need to go to a grocery store for more. I don’t need telephone solicitors and I do have a right to my privacy and that is being infringed upon and I DON’T LIKE IT!
I think if more people thought and acted the way I did, there would be less crime and more respect and less war. But the fact is, there are power grabbing, money hungry people out there as as long as that exists, this will go on and that is why Jesus WILL come back and put an end to it all! I just wish He would Hurry. God Bless!
Another Census Worker
May 28th, 2010
7:43 pm
Census workers will not enter occupied apartments. They might enter (with the apartment manager) vacant apartments to verify that nobody lives there. They also might get the census information (for an occupied apartment) from the landlord if the tenant refuses.
Alice Lillie
May 28th, 2010
7:46 pm
Someone said this is scary, a reason to go ahead and fill out the simple form.
No! No! A thousand times no!
It is yet *another* reason *not* to!
Neil Bates
May 28th, 2010
7:54 pm
Fr. Seamus O’Toole, you are not an authentic Christian or Father if you believe in defaming strangers without evidence, such as that those of us claiming to be Census workers are really trolls for whatever. Shame on you for effectively violating the Ninth Commandment (or are you a parody?)
Common Sense: the form you got was the American Community Survey, not a regular Census form. The ACS is “required” but I sympathize with those who say it doesn’t have the same proper place as the regular census. BTW it was alleged that the original Census only counted how many “people”, period – but then how could they distinguish slaves for the now notorious “3/5 rule” etc? They had to make distinctions even then. As for the meaning of “premises” etc, other commenters have rather well explicated how the full reading of the law does not (AFAICT) imply the Census taker can ask for access to get inside a dwelling. We are supposed to work outside the dwelling and never ask to get in.
Mike
May 28th, 2010
7:58 pm
They can come into my house anytime…IN A PIG’S EYE! I don’t give a damn what the government says!! I OWN IT..AND I’LL DECIDE WHO COMES INTO IT! Folks..it’s damn time to put this government back on the right track..even if its through REVOLUTION! The government has no right to say who can come into your house at anytime…unless suspected of a crime! And if I must spill my blood for this country…let it be on U.S.A. ground! People..it’s time for a change!! I don’t want to see any kind of revolution…but it’s coming…sure as spit if things don’t change! But then again..I may be wrong, because look at the majority of ignorant and lazy Americans! Don’t think so…look who’s in the White House!!
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susan doolittle
May 28th, 2010
8:15 pm
Liar, liar pants on fire, and shame on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for running this crap.
http://factcheck.org/2010/05/more-census-nonsense/
Freaked Out
May 28th, 2010
8:17 pm
Patriot: “I am all for the constitution and apply it to every facet of my life. Rights and freedoms comes with responsibility. (True but responsible to whom and what? Who’s the Decider on that?) Such as, the Freedom of Speech, I use it but have the responsibility to look around to see if I am abusing the right of someone else NOT to hear specific words that I might say. ( Do you apply this thinking to cigarette smoke too or do you think the right of smokers to be smelly and offensive to others, fouling the air and everything else around them is absolute and that nonsmokers need to love it or lump it?) Freedom to dress how I want, but I have to responsibility to make sure it is moral so as not to incite a rapist ( No, rapists rape because they wanted to rape. It had nothing to do with someone’s clothing. Rapists are predators that belong locked up and away from the general population. Blaming the crime on someone’s clothes is the same as saying they deserved to be raped. Do banks deserve to be robbed because they have a lot of cash? By your reasoning the robbers are innocent so would kidnappers and molesters be innocent while their victims deserved what they got.) , corrupt a married man and/or a child whose parents are raising them the right way. (If they’re raising them the right way what others do wont make them leave the right path.) (Freedom in this country means that everyone gets to decide for themselves what is right and wrong for themselves and their family, as long as they’re not hurting others, without some preacher or imam or rabbi telling them what it’s all about without their consent.) These are the things that everyone is forgetting.”
pirra
May 28th, 2010
8:29 pm
The Census Bureau can ONLY request the total number of occupants that reside at your address. These are YOUR Rights as per The Constitution Of The USA.
Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, the only information you are empowered to
request is the total number of occupants at this address. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity,
telephone number, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to do with apportioning
direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore,
neither Congress nor the Census Bureau have the constitutional authority to make that information
request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. In addition, I cannot be
subject to a fine for basing my conduct on the Constitution because that document trumps laws passed by
Congress…. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)
“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely
administrative body [such as the Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested
with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103
U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524,―and it cannot be too often
repeated,― that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all
invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies
of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights
of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of
personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of
his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of
this right, all others would lose half their value.’”
This United States Supreme Court case has never been overturned.
As Citizens, it is OUR duty to make sure that the Constitution remains Valid and Enforced.
Eustace
May 28th, 2010
8:34 pm
Break into my apartment?
BANG!
Case close.
azboy0810
May 28th, 2010
8:55 pm
I’m sure this pure BS. Either a complete over-exaggeration of the concept, or possibly an extremely outdated law that hasn’t been used in centuries. Enough of the conspiracy theories already.
jc
May 28th, 2010
9:05 pm
Prove that this has ever occurred. Pics, links, sources or stfu.
Rick
May 28th, 2010
9:06 pm
I mailed my survey back the day I received it and answered the first question on numbers and posted a copy of the constitution and article containing the census. Three weeks later I had supervisor come to my door and wanted me to answer her questions. I informed her I mailed it in the same day I received it, but I gave in alittle and told her I would answer her questions. I also informed her that I would end the interview if it got to intrusive. She asked about the address and how many people lived in the house and I answered. Then she wanted names and sex, relationship,and ethnicity. I told her she was done and that I answered the census according to the Constitution (numeration). She then asked if I was sure and I said, Yes. She advised me that another worker would come and I replied that they would get the same answer. I then said that she had my address and could go to the County Courthouse to get the information. Prvidint they would give it out. If the CH won’t give it out for being private info then we don’t need too. I then said goodbye and shut the door.
A friend of mine got the short form and later the long form. She sent both back the same way I did. Then sshe got another long form to fill out and she returned it the same way and hasn’t heard anything since. I viewed a copy of the long form and it is very intrusive and as far as I’m concerned they do not need this information. If I get fined then it I’ll pay it and still won’t give them the information. If anybody get fined or put in jail, the people must rise up.
Penina Spinka
May 28th, 2010
9:10 pm
That is not true. We are empowered to ask a third party called a ‘proxy’ what information he or she can share about the number of residents. If they can answer more of the nosy questions, fine, but we are NOT permitted to enter locked apartments. Where do you get this misinformation?