NAACP suing for records on 2020 Census preparation
Source: The Hill
The NAACP announced Thursday it would sue President Trumps Commerce Department for withholding records about its preparations for the 2020 Census.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, alleges the Census faces serious obstacles heading into its 2020 population count.
These include hiring and personnel gaps, exacerbated by a federal hiring freeze imposed in January 2017; an unprecedented move to digitize the census, with unknown vulnerabilities to cyberattack and disparate impacts on communities with less access to broadband internet services; a lack of senior leadership; and budgetary shortfalls at a time when the Bureaus funding should be substantially increasing, the complaint reads.
The NAACP says it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents about the U.S. Census Bureaus plans for the 2020 Census, including records on hiring practices, digitization and the bureaus efforts to reach out to hard-to-count populations.
Read more: http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/354123-naacp-sues-commerce-department-foe-refusing-to-release-2020-census
Thank you, NAACP! The 2020 Census looks like it is on course to be a huge clusterfuck. Purposefully.
lark
(23,156 posts)and increase rural representation and decrease that of NY and CA, especially. They want to show a substantially whiter and more affluent country because it fits their mind-set. Also one that's notably more hetrerosexual than actually exists.
Dispicable, deplorable, racist, America hating, greedy MF's is what they are.
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)For months now. I am so glad the NAACP is doing this. Thanks to them!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Ooppssie.. another big intentional, planned fuckup..
demmiblue
(36,893 posts)The implications of a failed/faulty census goes far beyond political representation.
geretogo
(1,281 posts)GOP . They are determined to turn us into a Banana Republic .
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)The NAACP fights for your civil rights - stand with us. DONATE TO THE NAACP.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Marthe48
(17,029 posts)For the 2000 Census, my sister hired on to go to homes that hadn't returned their form. One guy held her at knifepoint for several hours. She convinced him to let her go. She was scared but not hurt. I urged her to call the police, but she wouldn't. Didn't want to get him in trouble. Crazy.
I doubt if people like that are going to get on a computer and fill in their information.
Thanks NAACP for paying attention when others aren't!
iluvtennis
(19,874 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)GO!!!!!!!!!!!