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My latest NPR story: New public data for redistricting, policymaking and research may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people’s privacy when it releases statistics
New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's pri
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NEW: The Census Bureau has two new deputy directors — Michael Lachanski as deputy director for data, policy and science, and John Studds as deputy director for administration and operations
Dr. Michael Lachanski and John Studds Named as Deputy Directors for the Census Bureau.
NEW: A Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump’s four nominees for the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board — Jeffrey Brodsky, William Gallo, Anthony Lomangino and Robert Steffens — is set for June 17. The board currently has four Biden nominees
Nominations of the Honorable Bradford Wilson to be Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration; Hal Duncan to be Deputy Director
NEW: A federal appeals panel has agreed to fast-track its review of the Washington, D.C.-based lawsuits over President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail. The court's schedule sets up a ruling that may come as soon as early July
NEW: A federal judge has sided with the Census Bureau in Detroit's lawsuit over how the bureau produces annual population estimates, which help guide the distribution of federal funding for public services
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NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court is set to discuss on June 25 whether to take up a case that's part of the long-running legal saga over Pennsylvania's requirement for mail-in voters to handwrite a date on their ballot return envelopes
NEW: The Trump administration is banning one of the Census Bureau's main ways of protecting the confidentiality of people's responses to the #2030Census and other surveys — adding statistical "noise," or data for fuzzing survey results
Number: DAO 216-26 Effective Date: 2026-06-04 SECTION 1. PUR
Federal law requires the Census Bureau to keep people anonymous in its statistics. And for decades, the bureau has stripped away names and addresses from census responses before turning them into anonymized data.
But even in a sea of statistics, certain households — particularly those in the minority of a community — can stick out because they live in isolated areas or have other distinctive characteristics that could make it easier to reveal who they are.
Injecting statistical noise has been one of the additional privacy protections that the bureau has used for decades. Spokespeople for the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, did not immediately respond to NPR’s questions about why the ban on noise was issued.
For the 2020 census, no statistical noise was added to the state-level population numbers used to redistribute congressional seats and Electoral College votes.
But last year, the bureau said it was planning to keep using noise for neighborhood-level results from the #2030Census.
I’ll keep monitoring how the Trump administration’s ban on statistical noise affects the #2030Census and other Census Bureau surveys. For now, some data experts are concerned that this could limit the data that the bureau can release.
For a deeper dive into how statistical noise was used in certain 2020 census data (as part of the hotly-contested privacy protection system based on a mathematical concept known as differential privacy), here's my explainer from 2021:
The Census Bureau must protect people's privacy when it releases demographic data from the 2020 count. Plans to change how it does that have
Questions I have asked the Commerce Department’s public affairs office:
- Why did the commerce secretary decide that any use of noise infusion is inconsistent with the department's policies?
- Why did the secretary decide for coarsening to be the preferred category of disclosure avoidance methods for all statistical products?
- Does the Commerce Department consider swapping a form of statistical noise infusion that is banned under DAP 216-26?
NEW: Former Census Bureau Director Ken Prewitt, who helped oversee the 2000 census, has died at 90, the bureau's acting director, George Cook, announced in a blog post
I am sad to share news of the passing of Kenneth Prewitt, former director of the U.S. Census Bureau, at age 90.
My latest NPR story: After a major Supreme Court ruling, state-level voting rights acts and redistricting strategies in Democratic-led states are among the limited ways left for protecting racial-minority voters’ power
After a major Supreme Court ruling, state-level voting rights acts and redistricting strategies in Democratic-led states are among the limit
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service is no longer expected to run out of cash and stop deliveries next year, the Postal Regulatory Commission's Acting Chair Robert Taub told a House oversight subcommittee, after regulators suspended USPS' required retirement payments
Full disclosure: USPS is a financial supporter of NPR. As a NPR journalist, I follow the NPR Ethics Handbook, which says: “When appropriate, disclose funding relationships in related reports.”
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NEW: The Government Accountability Office raises concerns about how the Census Bureau is managing its schedule for modernizing how it stores and processes data through a program known as the "Enterprise Data Lake," flagging potential risks to the #2030Census and other future surveys
NEW: The Government Accountability Office finds the Trump administration's last-minute changes to the "2026 Census Test" raise the risk of cost and quality challenges for the #2030Census as the Census Bureau struggles with agency-wide skills gaps after last year's slashing of the bureau's workforce
NEW: In an effort to stop President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting mail-in voting, the NAACP, represented by the Legal Defense Fund and Public Citizen, asks a federal judge to block proposed U.S. Postal Service rules as part of enforcing a 2021 settlement agreement requiring "timely" delivery of mail for national elections through 2028.
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NEW: After weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court is set to discuss on June 18 whether to take up a case that could weaken enforcement of the law’s Section 208 protections for voters with a disability or limited language proficiency
NEW: Democrats are appealing a refusal by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to block President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail, as another judge in Boston prepares to hold a hearing Tuesday on the same order
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Starting today, households in parts of Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., who haven't filled out an online survey for the "2026 Census Test" may get a knock at their door from a census worker or U.S. Postal Service letter carrier. My earlier reporting on this field test for the #2030Census:
The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year's field test of the 2030 census and has added plans to test replac
The bureau says households may get door knocks during the evening as late as 9 p.m. local time. Visiting census and USPS workers should have a bureau badge with their name and picture, plus a bag with the bureau's logo. Full disclosure: USPS is a financial supporter of NPR. As a NPR journalist, I follow the NPR Ethics Handbook, which says: "When appropriate, disclose funding relationships in related reports."
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service is proposing election mail rules as directed in President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail
Full disclosure: USPS is a financial supporter of NPR. As a NPR journalist, I follow the NPR Ethics Handbook, which says: "When appropriate, disclose funding relationships in related reports."