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The Census and the Japanese “Internment”: Apology and Policy in…
The Census and the Japanese “Internment”: Apology and Policy in Statistical Practice
In 1942, Japanese Internment camps were created on the West Coast
trigger event was the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 by the Japanese
rights were overlooked, there was no due process or investigation
justified by US government as military action that was absolutely necessary
public demand to readdress the Internment Camp (1970s -1980s and onward)
"1980s, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians investigated the program again and repudiated the
rationale of military necessitys" pg. 790
US gave formal apology to Japanese American citizens and said the actions taken to create the camps and keep people there were unjustifiable
In relaity the "the policy was the result of racial prejudice, war hysteria, and failure of political leadership" pg.790
2000 Kenneth Prewitt (as Census Director) gives a full apology on behalf of the Census Bureau and takes repsonsibility
JACL pressures Census Bureau and calls them out
Raymond Okamura used media to address statements made by Barabba
calls into question the census' confidentiality
government used 1940 census data to help figure out which Japanese persons to round up
Census staff provided information for the military to find Japanese citizens for the internment camps
census leaders delayed revealing this information and previously worked to deny their roles
census staff maintain that it is their job to keep microdata confidential, but not macrodata
wide mistrust and suspicion of the Census Bureu conintued decades after the Census staff provided information for internment
2001, the 9/11 terorist attacks happen
"Muslims, Arabs, or Americans of Middle Eastern ancestry" were afraid something similiar to what happened to the Japanese after Pearl Harbor would happen to them pg. 801
Census is much more hestitant to gvie data to agencies that are tyring to fight the "war on terror"
Patriot Act changed confidentiality of statistics specifically "release of microdata" pg. 801
media found out through the Freedom fo Information Act that the Census was feeding data to Department of Homeland Securtiy about Arab Americans
census is again making public statements defending their release of information
claim to only have to protect personal data; can release broader data if it is being used to prevent harm
after 2000, what does that look like now?
2018, Trump administration tried to add a question about citizenship to track down noncitiizens
2020, differential privacy is the newest way of releasing or not releasing data