Not filling out form
- No. I'm not filling out the form. And if they come to my house I'll give them the number of people in my house and their ages, not birthdates, and that's it. That's all that the Constitution requires and that's all they are going to get. The erosion of privacy in this country is unbelievable and it's amazing how the people of this country have become desensitized to the invasion to their privacy. Fill out the form if you want. Lose the last bastion of privacy in doing so.
- —Guest keniv
Good citizen
- I would but never received the form, although a census employee stopped by and I told her she said no apt. #, but still have no form
- —Guest CusGer47
No Form
- I would have gladly filled out the forms for the 2020 U.S. Census but did not receive any.
- —Guest Tamara L. Gabrinetti
They can arrest me first.
- Too many of my constitutional rights have already been trampled on and trashed by the powers-that-be. I am not in a position to make them stop or turn around their path of our country's destruction. This is one way I can say 'kiss my azz'.
- —Guest J. Smith
WHat the
- Why does it ask for my name and phone numbers?? Can I just omitt names, phone numbers etc?
- —Guest Human
Privacy question
- I've read all about privacy protection with the census, but I also know that the student loan industry alone is exempt from standard consumer protections, and there is no legal obligation to notify people of the fact. So technically, this information could be revealed to student loan companies without anyone's knowledge, legally. I'm not saying that's the case, but these are the questions that arise when an industry engages in dark dealings for nearly 20 years, behind the scenes, with zero media coverage. Just something to consider if you have student loans in one hand, and a census form in the other.
- —Guest Sallie Mae
I filled it out
- I filled out my census for and sent it back. I did my civic duty, did you do yours?
- —Guest Zach_Attack
No Way-Bill me.
- I threw that junk mail out as soon as I got it. They want to come to my door asking questions? They can bill me the $100.00. Maybe they will get it. Maybe not. I am heading for the hills......it is getting VERY DARK.....
- —Guest Mr. Jason
DOSEN'T SEEM RIGHT TO ME...
- that the Census Bureau (err the White House) will ask me for my telephone number, names of persons in my household, and their birth dates. It's also strange how the census asks if your of Spanish origin but not if you are a citizen. Name, rank and serial number, that's it!
- —Guest American citizen
Just the minimum
- The purpose of the census, according to the Constitution, is to determine the number of representatives each state has. OK, so do they allocate more or fewer representatives based on ethnicity, gender, mortgage status, phone number, etc.? All they need is the number of voting age people, so that is all they are going to get. I didn't used to be paranoid, but when Obama quickly moved the Census Bureau to the White House and tried to get Acorn to collect forms, that was all I needed to decide to do exactly what the Constitution requires, and not a single bit more.
- —Guest Bull Gator
govt which governs best, governs least!
- I support my county all the time and my govt when it deserves it! Headcount and age only.
- —Guest Thomas Locke
Here's info from "the law"
- Regarding penalties for not answering all questions included in the schedules of the forms, note the last line: Sec. 225. Applicability of penal provisions in certain cases -STATUTE- (a) ... (1) ... (2) ... that the information called for is needed to aid or permit the efficient performance of essential governmental functions or services, or has significant application to the needs of the public, business, or industry and is not publicly available from nongovernmental or other governmental sources; ...
- —Guest CeCe
Census
- I'm wondering what is wrong with people too. There is nothing to fear, and they can ask any questions they want because it is stated in title 13. not answering them right will do more harm than answering them falsely... misrepresentation, misinformation to charities and non profit orgs, bad distribution of funds based on wrong populations
- —Guest Jon
We'll divulge #of residents, age, race.
- It's not smart to provide names and birth dates -- that's all the info needed for identity theft. The Census Bureau is way, way behind the times in asking for unnecessarily revealing, and easily stolen, personal identification information for what is supposed to be a head count. Back in great-grandma's day, there weren't any computer databases to hack into and mine for data. And since great-grandma's day, various agencies have accessed supposedly confidential information to round up Japanese Americans, for starters. With the addition this year of GPS tracking information on the official census envelopes, monitoring vulnerable groups like Arab Americans could easily be a top priority for whichever agencies are given unreported access to census files in 2010. Pretending that the Internet hasn't been invented, or that data mining and ID theft aren't multi-billion-dollar industries, is ludicrous and frankly insulting. And what's with the "head of household" nonsense? Evolve already.
- —Guest Voter
Retired
- Never received a form by mail. Postmaster says forms are not sent to persons with P.O. Boxes. I have no mail box delivery due to extreme location. I use the zip code where I live, but Postmaster said I would have to get my mail under a town that is miles away without mail delivery. Do I wait for the Census Taker? Even GPS and some computers tell individuals to look for me 10 miles ways.
- —Guest Jerry Rison
