NEW: Because of "significant risks" from wildfires, major storms & new COVID-19 restrictions, Census Bureau may not be able to complete #2020Census counting in all states by Sept. 30, Al Fontenot, bureau's top official for the count, warns in court filing.
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2. This court filing on 9/11 was for @MALDEF, @AAAJ_AAJC-led lawsuit in Maryland over Trump admin's last-minute decision to cut short #2020Census. I found key differences between this filing & the 9/4 filing (earlier thread below) for a suit in California
3. Associate Director Al Fontenot said in the 9/4 filing (left) the Census Bureau intends to "resolve 99% of the cases in each state."
But there's no mention of 99% in the 9/11 filing (right).
4. The number of "actively deployed" #2020Census door knockers dropped by 4,000 to 231,000 workers between 9/4 (left) and 9/11 (right).
5. A CFS area (census field supervisor area) is a "supervisory work assignment areas consisting of 4,000-5,500 housing units," according to Fontenot's 9/11 filing (right), which includes new numbers of areas in or eligible for "closeout" and those that have "reached conclusion."
6. Associate Director Al Fontenot apparently left out of the 9/4 filing (left) that he told senior career Census Bureau managers on 7/20 to "gather their staff of professional demographers, survey analysts, statisticians, and programmers."
7. The decision to expand early door-knocking to "all offices that could meet the safety, health, and staffing requirements" was made on July 14, according to the 9/11 filing (right) by Fontenot, who said in the 9/4 filing (left) that it took place in "early or mid July."
8. The 9/4 filing (left) said there's "no opportunity to begin the post data collection processing until data collection operations close everywhere," but the 9/11 filing said there's now "little opportunity," noting initial processing of addresses has been moved up by 26 days.
9. Why did Associate Director Al Fontenot not mention in the 9/4 filing the Census Bureau's "optimized" computer processing systems and "significant advances in computing technology" for the #2020Census that are highlighted in the 9/11 filing (below)?
10. In 9/11 filing, Fontenot said Census Bureau "took
action at the Headquarters level to ensure that no action in the period of September 5–17 would be contrary" to the temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh - no details about what actions were taken.
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