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Towson, Md. (March 16, 2010) — Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith kicked off Census 2010 in Baltimore County as Census questionnaires begin arriving in mailboxes here and across the country. Smith hosted a brief event at the Essex location of Creative Kids, Inc., a non-profit community learning center that relies on federal funds that are allocated based on Census population data. U.S. Census Bureau Regional Deputy Ted Roman joined the County Executive this morning in emphasizing the importance of everyone participating in the Census by returning the questionnaires.
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B
C
It's
very
important
for
the
allocation
of
represented
representation
in
the
Hat
house
of
representatives
in
Congress,
but
it's
also
very
important
in
the
allocation
of
federal
funding.
The
census
is
used
to
allocate
federal
funding
and
it's
430
5
billion
dollars
a
year
which
for
Maryland
is
it
should
exceed
828
million
dollars
every
year,
and
that
is
funding
for
hospitals
for
for
programs
like
Creative
Kids,
where
we
are
today,
it's
it's
really
important
for
everybody
to
be
counted.
Okay,.
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C
To
have
everybody
counted,
everybody
matters
and
everybody
should
be
counted,
and
that's
what
we're
trying
to
do
we're
working
with
the
community
to
do
that,
we're
working
with
chambers
of
commerce,
community
associations,
a
lot
of
volunteers
are
participating
to
make
sure
that
we
get
a
complete
count.
That's
what
we
want
for
Baltimore
can
okay,
Ted.
A
The
census
forms
that
we
send
out
to
the
household.
We
ask
people
to
fill
it
out
in
the
privacy
of
their
homes,
so
that
themselves
and
their
families
will
see
the
information
that
information
is
mail
returned,
and
it
goes
to
one
of
our
three
processing
centers
in
the
United
States.
The
information
is
pretty
much
and
electronically,
and
it's
just
tabulating
data
from
what
the
households
had
sent
in.
So
people
that
have
access
to
it
are
sworn
to
confidentiality
and
that's
a
lifetime
commitment.
A
So
it's
not
just
for
the
life
of
the
census,
but
any
information
that
they're
privileged
to
cannot
be
shared
with
anyone.
Any
government
agency
or
anyone
outside
of
the
Census
Bureau
for
those
who,
for
whatever
reason,
will
need
to
send
an
enumerator
to
their
door
to
ask
them
questions
those
people
before
we
hire
them
and
send
them
to
the
house.
A
They
go
through
a
rigorous
training
and
part
of
their
application
and
selection
process
is
to
have
a
security
background
on
them,
because
we
want
to
make
sure
that
people
coming
to
your
door
are
safe
and
that
your
household
is
safe,
but
people
were
sending
there.
So
we
have
clearances.
These
people
cannot
share
information
either
they're
subject
to
find
imprisonment
and
fine
is
up
to
250
thousand
dollars
if
they
break
that
confidentiality.
Okay,.
A
Workers
will
have
identifications,
they
won't
be
picture
IDs,
but
they
will
have
a
census
identification
form.
We've
notified
all
the
local
law
enforcement
agencies
by
sending
them
a
poster
with
phone
numbers
that
they
can
call
and
check
the
validity
of
one
of
our
employees
as
well
as
them
checking
out
the
identity
of
the
of
the
census,
identification
that
we
give
to
people.
Okay,.