[Genoa]

If I were you, I would call them back and submit to a recorded interview before some knucklehead filed charges against me. This stuff is very hard to undo. I believe in picking my hills to die on, so to speak. Just my $0.02.

[calex59]

If I were you, I would call them back and submit to a recorded interview before some knucklehead filed charges against me. This stuff is very hard to undo. I believe in picking my hills to die on, so to speak. Just my $0.02.

No, what you are is a coward.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

If I were you, I would call them back and submit to a recorded interview before some knucklehead filed charges against me.

I worked the 2000 census and they were telling people the same BS about "the law requires" and "$250 fine" and other such. As far as I know (I worked in a "regional center" office), no one was arrested, jailed, or fined. It's all a bluff to frighten you into complying with a bunch of extra-constitutional busy-body questions.

Keep in mind that the whole census organization rises like a phoenix bird from it's own ashes every ten years. The entire field staff are temp employees as are most of the office help (at least as far as regional directors). I was trained for my post by someone that had been hired a few days before me as he had been trained by someone hired a bit before him and &C, &C. The entire operation is a Mongolian Cluster Frack and if they brought ACRON into it this year, it can only have gotten worse.

Regards,
GtG

[VRWCTexan]

NO ONE has ever been prosecuted for refusing to answer census questions -

...all you are required to say is “ I prefer NOT to answer” - either on the phone or in person...

Census policy is to go to the home if unable to get desired data via a phone call...

My own advise is that this incident be reported to the person's congressional reps office -

[garv]

No one in the history of the United States has been charged for failing to comply with the Census.