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Trump administration officials suggested sharing census responses with law enforcement, court docume
Source: Washington Post
Trump administration officials suggested sharing census responses with law enforcement, court documents show
By Tara Bahrampour November 19 at 6:46 PM
Trump administration officials have discussed ways to circumvent the confidentiality of census responses, according to documents filed Friday in a California legal challenge to adding a citizenship question to the decennial survey.
The subject came up after a Democratic lawmaker asked whether responses to the survey could ever be shared with law enforcement agencies, something that has been strictly illegal according to federal law governing the census.
After a congressional hearing in May about the citizenship question, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Ca) submitted a written query about whether the Justice Department agreed with a memo it had issued in 2010 saying the Patriot Act could not override the confidentiality of the Census.
In a June 12 email, department officials discussed how to answer Gomez’s question in a way that left the answer open. Justice Department attorney Ben Aguinaga suggested to acting assistant attorney general John Gore that they not say “too much” in response to Gomez’s question, in case the issue were to “come up later for renewed debate.”
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By Tara Bahrampour November 19 at 6:46 PM
Trump administration officials have discussed ways to circumvent the confidentiality of census responses, according to documents filed Friday in a California legal challenge to adding a citizenship question to the decennial survey.
The subject came up after a Democratic lawmaker asked whether responses to the survey could ever be shared with law enforcement agencies, something that has been strictly illegal according to federal law governing the census.
After a congressional hearing in May about the citizenship question, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Ca) submitted a written query about whether the Justice Department agreed with a memo it had issued in 2010 saying the Patriot Act could not override the confidentiality of the Census.
In a June 12 email, department officials discussed how to answer Gomez’s question in a way that left the answer open. Justice Department attorney Ben Aguinaga suggested to acting assistant attorney general John Gore that they not say “too much” in response to Gomez’s question, in case the issue were to “come up later for renewed debate.”
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/trump-administration-officials-suggested-sharing-census-responses-with-law-enforcement-court-documents-show/2018/11/19/41679018-ec46-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html