DOJ Officials Suggested Sharing Census Responses With Law Enforcement
Source: daily beast and Reuters
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Justice Department officials have looked for ways to sidestep the confidentiality of census responses, according to court documents obtained by The Washington Post. After Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) reportedly asked the DOJ whether it agreed with a 2010 Justice Department memo stating the post-9/11 Patriot Act could not override the confidentiality of the Census, officials discussed amongst themselves how to answer. A June 12, 2017 email between DOJ attorney Ben Aguinaga and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore reportedly suggested not saying too much about the census confidentiality in case the issue were to come up later for renewed debate.
This comes as the Trump administration is fighting legal battles to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The Census Act reportedly states that Census data cannot be shared by the Commerce Department with any other government agency or court.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-officials-suggested-sharing-census-responses-with-law-enforcement
NOTHING will stop Trump till we kick him OUT of our Oval Office.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,849 posts)possible to destroy this country.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)pecosbob
(7,537 posts)he's just a snake oil salesman that figured out how to manipulate the corporate-owned media. This is part of the larger conservative agenda for cementing their control of the majority and neutering public response to government over-reach. They'll try to turn the Senate into the House of Lords...lifetime appointments like the Judiciary.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Until then, nothing but aggregated statistical data.