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U.S. NEWS Saturday 18 February 2023

Cities appealing 2020 census count garner only small wins

By MIKE SCHNEIDER ons whose inmates were
Associated Press assigned to the wrong ju-
For the U.S. cities and towns risdiction. Those facilities,
that have challenged their along with college dorms,
2020 census population nursing homes and military
figures, the victories have barracks, were among
been mostly small. But small the most difficult places to
turned out to be big for tiny count as the coronavirus
Whiteville, Tennessee. spread throughout the U.S.
Of the dozen or so mu- during crucial weeks for
nicipalities that have ap- the census in the spring of
pealed and had the results 2020. Students were sent
made public by the U.S. home from campuses, and
Census Bureau because prisons and nursing homes
they say residents were went into lockdowns when
overlooked during the na- those residents were sup-
tion’s last headcount, the posed to be counted.
biggest gain so far has Challenging the numbers
been 1,958 residents in was frustrating for some
Whiteville, which now has city officials, who say the
a revised population of Census Bureau didn’t con-
4,564 residents and could sider nuances of particular
see a significant boost in cases.
the money it gets from the In Kent, Ohio, officials
state and federal govern- weren’t worried about
ments. The Milwaukee skyline is pictured on Sept. 6, 2022. For the cities and towns that have challenged their overall count, but
Even with just small increas- their 2020 census population figures, claiming residents within their boundaries were overlooked rather undercounts in spe-
during the nation’s head count three years ago, victories have been mostly small in size.
es of several hundred resi- Associated Press cific wards, particularly
dents, cities like Milwaukee in a neighborhood home
are taking what they can 2020 census put Milwaukee are still pending and could tor, said the Census Bureau to hundreds of Kent State
get. Wisconsin’s largest city at 577,222 residents, down produce larger revisions. didn’t inform local officials University students who
recently gained more than about 3% from 2010. About six dozen smaller cit- where in the city of 3,518 deserted their apartments
800 residents after it was “We will take the 817 peo- ies, towns and villages have the population gain oc- once remote learning was
discovered that inmates ple to start,” said Jeff Flem- challenged their head curred. imposed during the pan-
at one of the local jails ing, a spokesman for Mil- count through two Census “We simply want an accu- demic. The neighborhood
were wrongly assigned to a waukee Mayor Cavalier Bureau programs. rate number for our com- saw a construction boom
neighboring city. That chal- Johnson. “We have to fight The statistical agency has munity since this involves in the last decade.
lenge was organized with when they tell us we lost posted the results for more the census count and ac- After the appeal and revi-
other Wisconsin munici- population.” than a dozen municipali- cess to resources since so sion, Kent lost 12 residents
palities. Milwaukee has an- Milwaukee is among the ties, with a gain of as few as many federal programs to neighboring Franklin
other appeal still pending, largest U.S. cities to chal- four people in Cleveland, are based on population,” township, and the Census
claiming 16,500 residents lenge their 2020 census Georgia, where one addi- Harris said in an email on Bureau didn’t address the
were overlooked in houses numbers, along with Bos- tional home was added to Friday. city’s concerns, said Bridg-
and apartments primarily in ton, Detroit and Austin, the city’s boundaries. Kevin A substantial number of re- et Susel, Kent’s community
communities of color. The Texas. Those cases also Harris, the city’s administra- visions involved jails or pris- development director.q

DOJ search of Pence’s office turns up no new classified docs

By JILL COLVIN and unrestricted search” of the classified markings. That
ERIC TUCKER office of Advancing Ameri- was after lawyers hired by
Associated Press can Freedom, the nonprofit Pence last month discov-
WASHINGTON (AP) — group launched by Pence ered what aides have de-
The Justice Department in 2021. One binder be- scribed as a “small num-
searched the office of for- lieved to be part of Pence’s ber” of potentially sensitive
mer Vice President Mike 2020 debate prepara- documents they say were
Pence ‘s Washington ad- tions “with approximately inadvertently transported
vocacy group for several three previously redacted to Pence’s home in boxes
hours Friday as part of its in- documents” was taken by at the end of the Trump ad-
vestigation into the discov- agents. ministration.
ery of sensitive documents The search, described as Pence had asked his law-
at the homes and offices of consensual after negotia- yers to conduct the search
current and former top U.S. tions between Pence’s rep- after an outcry over the dis-
officials. resentatives and the Jus- covery of classified docu-
Pence adviser Devin tice Department, comes ments at President Joe
O’Malley said no additional Former Vice President Mike Pence pauses while speaking at a one week after the FBI Biden’s Delaware home
documents with classified Coolidge and the American Project luncheon in the Madison searched Pence’s Indiana and office. He’s said re-
Building of the Library of Congress, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, in
markings were discovered Washington. home and discovered one peatedly he was unaware
during a “thorough and Associated Press additional document with they were there.q