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Imagine this just for a moment...if you are capable of believing ANY government would actually do this...short of Nazi Germany....
Seriously.
http://tammybruce.com/2010/05/census-workers-can-enter-your-apartment-in-your-absence.html
Not a big fan of Bob Barr ( I find him odd) but a hat tip to him for this revelation in his column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
What many Americans dont realize, is that census workers from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for the collection of statistics. If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00.
Thats right not only can citizens be fined if they fail to answer the increasingly intrusive questions asked of them by the federal government under the guise of simply counting the number of people in the country; but a landlord must give them access to your apartment whether youre there or not, in order to gather whatever statistics the law permits.
In fact, some census workers apparently are going even further and demanding and receiving private cell phone numbers from landlords in order to call tenants and obtain information from them. Isnt it great to live in a free country?
Always a little suspicious of the Usual Suspects, I decided it would be prudent to find confirmation, i.e., the relevant code. Here it is via Cornell University Law School:
TITLE 13 > CHAPTER 7 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 223
§ 223. Refusal, by owners, proprietors, etc., to assist census employees
Imagine this just for a moment...if you are capable of believing ANY government would actually do this...short of Nazi Germany....
Seriously.
http://tammybruce.com/2010/05/census-workers-can-enter-your-apartment-in-your-absence.html
Not a big fan of Bob Barr ( I find him odd) but a hat tip to him for this revelation in his column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
What many Americans dont realize, is that census workers from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for the collection of statistics. If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00.
Thats right not only can citizens be fined if they fail to answer the increasingly intrusive questions asked of them by the federal government under the guise of simply counting the number of people in the country; but a landlord must give them access to your apartment whether youre there or not, in order to gather whatever statistics the law permits.
In fact, some census workers apparently are going even further and demanding and receiving private cell phone numbers from landlords in order to call tenants and obtain information from them. Isnt it great to live in a free country?
Always a little suspicious of the Usual Suspects, I decided it would be prudent to find confirmation, i.e., the relevant code. Here it is via Cornell University Law School:
TITLE 13 > CHAPTER 7 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 223
§ 223. Refusal, by owners, proprietors, etc., to assist census employees
