That seems to be the end of it, but only time will tell. Again, we refused and she threatened their fine. Finally, she said I am not answering anymore questions and they left her alone. True Nazism at its finest. On 22 September 2006, the American Broadcast Company (ABC) reported that, since 2003, the Census Bureau lost or reported stolen over 200 laptops and numerous handheld and portable data devices used by survey collectors. Census worker says "I am with the census.". The 24-page survey, which can be found on the Bureau's website, is sent out to about 2.5% of the American population to collect statistical information for city planning. We told a census worker to come back on Friday at 6 p.m. Don't know if it's the "bureau" calling or not, but I'm ready for them. Well, it's just arrived in the form of a mail packet that asks volumes of personal, none of your business information. Census workers are trying to do a decent job like everyone should try to do. Publication of the new marital data is anticipated in late 2009. That's why every selfish person here complains that the government doesn't use resources in the right place; the government waits too long to address problems; the government wastes money. Thank goodness for this web site. I am filling out the ACS as required by law, but feel this is a true invasion of privacy. Your participation is critical, and your response to the 2020 Census cannot replace your answers to these surveys. If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The less you say to them the faster they stop bothering you. "Your mobile app doesn't work well." The census taker left a note me a note today. I guess it's too simple, or full of common sense. As a current enumerator I'd like to say thanks to the great majority of people who have courteously answered census questions. He didn't know what to think about that (needed to check the law), and took no action. If you are thinking about filling this out, don't! In summary: All banks must develop initial and annual privacy notices. They're people just like you are, Americans just like you are. One month ago, I received a letter stating that the census was coming. Lumoa. The daily number of cyber attacks on our federal government and access by illicit state and non-state actors is eye watering. The states need to reassert their rights back from the federal government. I assume that's why they have come again. I hung up immediately and called the sheriff. At that point I stepped in and said goodbye. Within Are You in a Survey? I will not comply. It's a breath of fresh air. The census man came to my house eight times, two of which he sat in my driveway for a total of 50 minutes. Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your message. of Commerce rep, and called on my cell phone. Don't be rude to the people who are sent out to your house because you think you're too "special" to answer your census. Last census I was harassed for a while because I refused to answer the long winded privacy invading Community Survey. They want me to call an 800 number to give them my personal info. I may not bother with this anyway. The info tells them how many live in a certain area. They have been to my house, my place of business, also calling my place of business and if told I am busy they inform me they will call again in one hour. She said they don't do that. This is just crap. Can I file a harassment claim somewhere? Perhaps act so insanely crazy they will be glad to leave. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. OK anon75478: Then you won't mind answering these question will you? Then I received the ACS. Please show me where the US Census Bureau was given the right to fine you or even where they are mentioned in these laws? In the case of direct taxes (a direct tax is a tax on property based on ownership), this provision requires Congress to apportion the tax among the individual States based on population. I filled out the form only giving the required information by law and that is how many people live here. I will sleep well tonight. I am not telling them anything. What kind of people do you have working for you? I think when they show up at my door, I will tell them I am house sitting for the owners who are out of town for the next six months. So get a clue, and if you are so upright and truthful, use your real name. We do live in a relatively remote area, and none of them can make sense of maps they are provided with. If you would like to broadcast your personal information, go for it. About one week later, I was ready to mail in my form. The Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey found 295,000 households in the Boise region as of December 2021. How many, each age, and each sex. The only one who seemed to do anything on it was Freedom Watch Judge Napolitano. I have been contacted to participate in a survey. When are they going to get the hint and stop? I thought to myself, now they are going to harass them. It sure the hell is. I have a few ideas to annoy them: Answer the door buck naked while eating a piece of chicken. This is especially true if you have already returned your regular census form. He harassed her a little and had fun with it and she was on her way. My husband and daughter fielded a few of them and honestly told the workers they didn't have the information or the form so they'd have to try to catch me. Commission, 32 Fed. From original poster #188: I heard the head of the Census on NPR this morning. To support any of this is not like killing, it is killing your neighbor, your dog, your wife, your kids and your kids' kids - maybe slowly and with pretty lights and shiny trinkets, but it is. My husband sent him away as we were eating. Objections to the ACS include the personal nature of some of its questions and, despite government assurances to the contrary, associated confidentiality issues. In July, I started to receive visits. If you waiver or hide, they will keep trying. I repeatedly told her that I gave the legal information I am required by law and that is how many people live here. I am a tax paying, hard working citizen, who would die fighting for my country and my rights, but didn't our forefathers already settle this fight? I even gave them the date I mailed it on. And if I were paranoid, I'd be accusing the census takers of taking my new baby's ss card that has still not arrived in my hands in four months! To be sure, the calls were incessant for a time -- anywhere from one to eight calls a day for about six to eight weeks perhaps. we need to stop fighting and come together, reminiscent of the black panthers and Raymond Washington. Unbelievable that she is now spying on us. She said she would mark me as "refusing" and I said fine and hung up. He ignored the legality but admitted there were corporate sponsors involved. As a result, Congressional districts will need to be redrawn. Some doubt these assurances based on the survey collection process itself. I am with all of you that it is all wrong and will not return the form. Anyone else with other info/advice is politely requested to add their two cents. so no more. My question is: "Doesn't our government have enough information on us from our mandatory tax returns?" For more information about the Census Bureaus data privacy protections, please visit our Policy Office webpage. We are getting a camera for the outside of our home this week, so we will be ready. This is Big Brother keeping an eye on the revolution. (812) 218-3144, Jeffersonville Contact Center. Next step will be implanting us with chips, or tattooing our arms. I was willing to answer the survey at first - thinking it would just be a headcount but then I saw the rest of the questions. Let's see if she comes back for her shower. These "enumerators" aren't policemen and they can't make you answer their questions or let them into your house. I don't want abuse from anyone, least of all from those who were once subject to the people and who now act as if they are the elite. If there was no response by the time we finished our list, we were to call again. Your responses to a survey represent your household or business and others like yours and cannot be replaced by simply selecting a different household or business. A concerned citizen. Not about us - about adjoining property! Thanks to all of you for your comments. Moreover, since there are no reported instances of the Census Bureau taking legal or financial action, some speculate that the Census Bureau's threats carry no weight. Continued refusal may lead to additional visits by a supervisor. This is all bull. Well it started for me. Don't fill out anything if you don't want the public to know some of your private information. We gave the government the right to count us. I had never heard of such a thing. Now let me get my cell phone fully charged and ready for the doorbell to ring. And, while it asks a lot of personal questions, your answers can help the government decide how to distribute hundreds . If they refuse, call 911 and report a hostile trespasser. So, do I really need to fill this out, or can I use it to line my bird cage? Ain't going to happen, just call their bluff. The visits stopped, and I never heard from them again. The right to privacy is also inherent in many amendments to the Bill of Rights, such as the 3rd, the 4th, search and seizure and the 5th, self incrimination limit. They think that if they exert a little authority, show you a badge, write a stern letter, that you will be too afraid to tell them that they have no right to subject you to this. And to poster 201: the survey is much more intrusive than asking how many people live in your household. Locating the areas experiencing the most significant challenges and directing additional attention - including new resources - towards them could result in meaningful reductions in homelessness. The results of the 2020 Census were released last summer following a series of delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Census Bureau provides guidelines that prevent harassment or late night calls, although some ACS recipients have complained of getting several calls a day. --Paul. Go Obama Care. Survey Design and Methods. I have contacted all of my federal and state Representatives and it is time they passed a census privacy act. Some surveys involve multiple interviews in order to learn how characteristics such as income, employment, housing, or education change over time. Just open the door, answer their questions, and they will forget about you and your insignificant existence for another 10 years. Let this letter be the third request that you respect my privacy and my requests. Keep your posts coming! ACS was conducted vigorously and continuously during the presidency of George W. Bush. I have worked as an enumerator. We've tossed two surveys in the recycle bin. A census employee went to my neighbor's house, asking for my age, birth date, etc. Thanks! I told him that was correct. Bunch of grumpy anti social loners. Especially after reading the comments on this page. The third section of U.S. Code referenced is " 13 U.S. Code 221 - Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers ." Great. In the future, you can resubscribe/opt yourself back in by 1) filling out any form on your website (you will be directed to a preferences pages) or 2) clicking the email subscription link in the footer of a marketing email you have received from your portal. You can find no instance of someone being 'required' to respond, or being fined for not doing so. Most people allow themselves to be bullied and are afraid of breaking some law. The Nazis were just doing their jobs, also, "anon75478" but that doesn't make it right. The efforts to secure a response to ACS seem fairly on the mark, but the point that seems most lost here is that households chosen for ACS are just part of a statistical sample that is representative of the country as a whole. About 51% of Americans oppose allowing religious exemptions for people who otherwise would be required to get the shot, while about 48% support such exemptions, the Public Religion Research Institute found in a survey published Wednesday. I told them they were barking up the wrong tree and they need to follow the U.S. Now they called again and wanted to ask these questions over the phone. We keep refusing them and they keep threatening us. Those of you who are posting "what's the big deal" need to start doing some research on your government and the shady things that go on at the taxpayers' cost. They must have found it because I heard no more but neither did I get an apology. If you can't see why many people have a problem with the ACS then I'll never be able to explain it to you. The yahoos on the Hill will continue to usurp our rights. He said he'd pass that along. 1. It's hard to believe that a patriotic, high school social studies teacher, and law-abiding citizen, such as myself, could be compelled to suggest such civil disobedience--but here I am, and hear me loud. Best wishes, and see you all after the election. If that thing were to get lost or some person where I mailed it, there's a lot of things that I don't want them to have. I don't think they are even aware of how intrusive this is. Whether I'm white, black, hispanic, etc., or whether I own or rent my home, makes as much difference to the count of legal U.S. citizens as not having to show your legal or illegal status as a U.S. citizen. Non parlo inglese!" Standing up for my rights in L.A. Why not just give em complete BS answers. The old surveys don't ask for much more than that (other than birthplace). If you do/have, chances are your information is already out in the open for various public/private agencies. Thus, they cannot use the census as the pretext for the ACS. Documents received by the couple from the bureau also tell the couple that they are legally obligated to. I am glad I am not myself the lunatic fringe. Granted, I'm sure they can find it, but the census would have had to use some powers beyond their department to find it, since I intentionally left that form blank on the 2010 census. I insisted that the little brownshirt leave and go look in the mailroom because I was not going to do it over again-like I have nothing better to doshe said I was in BIG trouble because she could FORCE me to do it over. Unreal! Mind you, no return by date was given. I received two surveys. Keep up the good fight! We monitored our caller ID and just refused to answer the phone when they called (along with any other numbers listed as "unavailable"). "the point that seems most lost here is that households chosen for ACS are just part of a statistical sample that is representative of the country as a whole". My husband said he is going to start asking them the personal questions and leave it at that. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct., The power to make laws concerning the Census is restricted to the actual enumeration.. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. There is an actual law on the books, but that law has never been applied. But remember some of these folks have children to feed, too. Unless an individual has been charged and convicted of some criminal offense connected to the Census and the crime falls within section 3559, this $5,000.00 fine does not apply. They say they are from the U.S. Dept of Commerce. I've read the Constitution now and I fail to find any foundation for anyone asking questions of this nature. I received my acs form,filled it out and threw it in the garbage where it belongs. Don't be afraid. Go Tea Party! It feels good to see so many of you willing to take a stand against this invasion of privacy. It's all very true, and very real. Don't give in. to be human so be sure to count them in as well! Well, I wonder what he's thinking now. The Current Population Survey and National Crime Victimization Survey are examples of surveys that include multiple interviews over a period of time. Good for Michele Bachmann for saying she wasn't filling this out. I will not be giving some 18 year old pimple face unemployed moron my personal information. I have a right to not be harassed in my home. Your participation is critical. Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau is required to conduct a census to determine the number of people living in the country. ACS has only been going since 2005. Oh wait, we have a socialist leader now. Remember, it is Congress that is the creator of federal law, and the enumerator of penalties for violations of the law, not the U.S. Census Bureau. I also refused the deputy entrance for the purpose of a census and said that I wished them both to leave as I would not comply. Person 33. I was told if I didn't answer then his supervisor would come out and if I didn't respond to his supervisor, they would return with a Larimer County Sheriff and then I would have to answer or else! Contact the Census Bureau by phone or email if you have additional questions or if you just have concerns and need to speak to a person who can assist you. She was asking the questions again and I told her that I already filled out the form so there is no reason for me to fill it out again. If such a law exists, it should not exist, for it would be truly unconstitutional. Lastly, if you are a proper pet owner, then you consider you dog, cat, etc. I ignored all of them. The American Community Survey is an offshoot of the census, but the ACS is done every year. They are instilling fear. I am in the middle of this ACS thing now and refusing to answer. Sure, businessmen could use the info -- but because someone wants it, doesn't mean that I have to give it. Poster 235 is on to something: maybe my neighborhood can get a new school, a new hospital, and a new fire station. If they harass you with phone calls change your number before they do the census and keep it unlisted. Why doesn't the gov just sell us some cyanide instead of slowly picking away at our bones? Please give that a shot, I'll find me a constitutional lawyer and challenge the constitutionality of this law, any survey or law attached and the constitutionality of this survey as well as the census survey. Then I whistled up the dogs who escorted him tenderly to his car. That and the census has been used in the past to identify people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent. Get every bit of info on that person I can (don't forget to do a criminal search) and call them and start asking them questions they will find offensive and question them about their personal life from what I find out about them. Has anyone really admittedly shown that proof that they got fined? They are a toothless tiger. I am grateful for this siteI just got the survey in the mail and felt very intimidated into having to complete it.or else. They will report any threats or harassment (allegedly), so be careful how you respond to them. A lock ( If you got grilled before then they are trying to find out the change in your situation over time. I feel that a class action lawsuit should be started. anon77096: Why would anybody want federal funding for anything? I told her I wasn't calling anybody. I see no reason to comply. 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. The census is unconstitutional - read the enumerations - and the amendments already cited. no one here is related etc., etc. Finally, the last enumerator knocked one more time, then took away the last notice, which I decided to leave there. This city hasn't had its streets fixed in years and we always fill out the census. "The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Think anyone is going to get approval to send out US Marshals to issue tickets? The reason she looked at you in shock is because her husband didn't know she was there - she'd be fired on the spot and fined if she told her husband that. Follow your happiness and I promise the universe will be there for you: subtle, slow, obvious or quick it will respond to your emotions. Or maybe they're going to start sending happy birthday cards to everybody soon. Then I asked the census taker her birth date, and I again got no answer. its no joke. In three weeks they should mail me a duplicate form. Still standing on my porch, I watched her drive back by my house when she left. Unbelievable! From (original) Poster 188: Knock on wood, the phone calls seem to have stopped. The Census Bureau may follow up with you regarding the information you provided. . Section 221. I looked the form up online and balked at the intrusiveness of the question. 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