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From the New York Daily News:

BY MICHAEL MCAULIFF

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee has set a hearing into the Brooklyn Census office that dummied up thousands of questionnaires, prompting the firing of two managers and do-overs for 10,000 family surveys.

Rep. Ed Towns, whose district is next door to the Northeast Brooklyn Census office that used the Internet and phone books to fill out forms, set the hearing for July 19 in Brooklyn’s Borough Hall.

“Given my commitment to the success of the 2010 Census, this recent problem is particularly troubling,” said Towns, who ironically held an earlier hearing in the very census office that later became a problem.

“Any attempt to compromise the integrity of the census is simply unacceptable given what is at stake for our community,” Towns said of the shenanigans first reported by the Daily News. “I am holding this hearing to ensure that the Census Bureau is following all of the necessary steps to accurately count every resident in Brooklyn.”

Among those invited to testify are Census Director Robert Groves, Commerce Department Inspector General Todd Zinser, and Tony Farthing, the census regional director.

Tags: Brooklyn, Congress, Ed Towns, Inspector General, New York, Robert M. Groves, scandal, Todd Zinser, Tony Farthing, Towns

This entry was posted on July 10th, 2010 at 2:26 pm by Stephen Robert Morse.
It is filed under Accountability, Census Bureau, Census Form, Jobs, Management, MyTwoCensus Investigations, Operations, Politics, Public Relations, Redistricting, Statistics, Technology.