[EL] Preliminary Census survey form

[Steven John Mulroy (smulroy)]

Is the boilerplate about the legal obligation to respond just bluffing? The statutes they cite do not seem to support an obligation to respond, and I was always under the impression that responses were voluntary.  I suppose there could be some generic statute under title 18 that could be read to apply here, but I don't understand why the form wouldn't cite such a statute if it existed.

I understand that even if there were such a technical requirement,  enforcement would be so rare as to be unheard of and as a practical matter render it the same as there being no legal obligation. I'm just wondering what legal basis if any there is for the forms assertion that recipients are obligated by law to respond.

Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse typos.

On Jul 20, 2019, at 10:11 AM, Charles H Stewart <cstewart at mit.edu<mailto:cstewart at mit.edu>> wrote:

Here is the link to the Census Bureau press release about the test. The test has been covered in several news reports. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/2019-test-begins.html

Charles Stewart III
MIT
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