Alabama’s population has become more diverse over the last 10 years and a handful of counties helped drive the state’s population growth, according to U.S. Census Bureau numbers released Thursday. Mirroring a trend across the country, Alabama showed an increase in racial and ethnic diversity in the new Census numbers. The percentage of people who identify as white…
The U.S. Census Bureau says that it’s on schedule to deliver the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts by mid-August. The news comes after federal judges rejected a challenge that could have delayed the data release.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A panel of judges has heard arguments over whether the U.S. Census Bureau can use a controversial statistical technique to keep people’s information private in the numbers used for drawing political districts. Monday’s hearing hinged on a balancing test: The method known as “differential privacy” must meet the federal legal requirement for maintaining the confidentiality of…
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) Republican senators are expressing frustration that data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts won’t be available until August at the earliest. But the U.S. Census Bureau’s acting director told them at a hearing Tuesday that the schedule is driven by a goal of releasing complete and accurate numbers. Republican members of the Homeland Security &…
The Associated Press has obtained text messages a U.S. Census Bureau supervisor in Alabama sent to workers telling them how to fake counts of households by entering misleading data. The texts from October say the effort’s goal was to close the census count in cases where they couldn’t tell who lived in a household after two visits. Workers were told…
The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident from continuing through the end of October. The court on Tuesday said the 2020 census should be stopped for now. The Trump administration argued that the head count needed to end immediately so the U.S. Census Bureau had enough time to crunch the numbers before a…
The federal government is asking a judge to dismiss Alabama’s lawsuit seeking to exclude people living in the country illegally from 2020 U.S. Census counts. A federal judge on Wednesday gave Alabama until Jan. 25 to respond to the request. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers wrote in a court filing last week that Alabama’s claim that it could lose a…
