The NAACP announced Thursday it would sue President Trump’s 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 Bureau’s 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 Bureau’s plans for the 2020 Census, including records on hiring practices, digitization and the bureau’s efforts to reach out to “hard-to-count” populations. Read more: http://thehill.com/regulation/court...epartment-foe-refusing-to-release-2020-census Thank you, NAACP! The 2020 Census looks like it is on course to be a huge clusterfuck. Purposefully
