Census Bureau Allowing Sex Offenders to go door-to-door?

[Tristicus]

After two cases of alleged criminals going door-to-door to take surveys, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said Monday that the U.S. Census Bureau must do more to prevent hiring census takers with a criminal background.

In a letter to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke sent Monday, Shelby wrote that when he asked Locke during a Senate hearing last year about guidelines to disqualify applicants, including sex offenders and people who've committed crimes against children, he was told the measures would ensure "each applicant is an acceptable risk to collect census information from residents of a community as a representative of our government."

"It is inconceivable that the Census Bureau could be so poorly managed as to hire a convicted sex offender to go door-to-door to collect personal information," Shelby said. "Clearly, Mr. Secretary, your guidelines are not working."

The letter followed news last week that a sex offender in New Jersey had spent two weeks in May interviewing residents while carrying around an official Census badge, bag and list of residents who hadn't returned their surveys.

Frank Kuni reportedly had used fake documents under the name Jamie Shephard to pass an initial name check and receive four days of training.

But an alert resident recognized the 47-year-old from the state's Internet sex offender registry.

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:hmm: Doesn't sound too good to me.

 

[werepossum]

In the Census Bureau's defense, they thought he was an illegal alien.

Instead of going into the sex offender business, he should have studied languages and joined the Army as a translator. Then he'd be known as that Kuni linguist and he'd have all the action he wanted.

/snark

 

[jhu]

Do they say what kind of sex offender? The term "sex offender" is now so broad it includes people who urinate on the side of the road, teenagers who have sex with teenagers, parents who let their teenagers have sex with teenagers, etc.

 

[Tristicus]

Offense and Disposition Information
Offense: ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF A CHILD
Date of Disposition: 11/04/1996 Place of Disposition: CAMDEN
Victims: x - Under18 x - Female
Modus Operandi / Significant Event Details
OFFENDER ASSAULTED ONE VICTIM AND HAD INAPPROPRIATE
CONTACT WITH TWO OTHER VICTIMS WITH WHOM HE WAS
ACQUAINTED

From the NJ sex offender site.

https://www6.state.nj.us/LPS_spoff/individualsearch.jsp

Frank Kuni

 

[WHAMPOM]

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:hmm: Doesn't sound too good to me.

Misslead with your topic thread much? The Census hired hired one sex offender because he used false papers? LOL

 

[Tristicus]

Misslead with your topic thread much? The Census hired hired one sex offender because he used false papers? LOL

Sen. Shelby Slams Census Bureau for Allowing Sex Offenders to Go Door-to-Door

:hmm:

 

[palehorse]

In the Census Bureau's defense, they thought he was an illegal alien.

Instead of going into the sex offender business, he should have studied languages and joined the Army as a translator. Then he'd be known as that Kuni linguist and he'd have all the action he wanted.

/snark

nice x 2.