Comments on: Alabama Senator Blasts Census Bureau For Sending Sex Offenders Door-to-Door

By: BBob

BBob — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:44:11 +0000

I know of no requirement to let them come into your house. Simply answer the door the same as you would for the UPS delivery person, the Girl Scouts selling cookies, or the Mormons going door-to-door. When they show their Census ID’s, stay at the door, answer their questions and help OUR community.
As for hiring sex offenders. It is not if they when to the prisons and handed out applications, everyone I know that works for the Census said they were fingerprinted and checked out by the FBI.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:54:20 +0000

REGARDING:
“Yet census workers still came to my door saying that I did not send in my form and they need to do it again.”

I can just picture it:
and the whole time they are looking your home over for valuables and looking lustfully at your children . . . .

Yet they wonder why some don’t like to invite them in.

David with nothing worth stealing,
but still unwilling to share with thieves

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:49:01 +0000

Regardless of who shows up at your door, I think the whole program should be looked at more closely. I filled out my census form and mailed it out the next day after I got it. Yet census workers still came to my door saying that I did not send in my form and they need to do it again. I don’t believe the post office was at fault. What a waste of tax payers money doing something that has already been done. Then it makes you wonder how accurate the census figures can be when they have two forms for many households. Maybe they are smart enough to figure out that they have two forms for many households, but then again they could not figure out that the first form had already been mailed in on time. Oh well????

By: huh

huh — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:31:56 +0000

You forget just how easy a sex offender could also come to your house trying to talk you into church, or selling items. I don’t see how the census would be much different, so what if they know your name ?

It sounds like fear mongering , the highest percentage of sexual assaults come from close family members.

By: Chumuckla Proud

Chumuckla Proud — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:15:42 +0000

Sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated by serving jail time. Sex offenders remain sex offenders throughout their lifetime. It is a mental illness that is incurable.

Senator Shelby is right..sex offenders should have never been hired as census takers! Beware who you open your door to and never leave a stranger in your home if you are alone.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:39:21 +0000

huh…Yeah because sex offenders don’t need jobs right? Its much better to let the state support them with welfare instead of working?

I can’t see how you guys agree to not let them work, if they haven’t paid for their crime then they would still be in jail, if not in jail, and they have completed the sentence , let them move forward, and find work
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It is not that they do not deserve to work. However, a Census worker has information in front of him as to who resides at that residence.Info such as age and sex of each individual. That is the reason a sex offender should not have employment with the Census. (well, my reason)

I do not have any problem with them finding a job. But, it should be a job that better suits them. Not put them in a situation where they might be tempted to harm others.

By: huh

huh — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:19:16 +0000

Yeah because sex offenders don’t need jobs right? Its much better to let the state support them with welfare instead of working?

By: Grateful Whitfield

Grateful Whitfield — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:04:58 +0000

I love Sen. Shelby. Our Govenor here in Florida dont care if s-x offenders are walking the streets. He watches Po-n in his spare time.

By: Grateful Whitfield

Grateful Whitfield — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:01:53 +0000

I wanta move to Alabama.