Census Bureau invites appeals of counts of dorms, prisons

By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press

Governments across the U.S. can start challenging the counts of prisons, dorms and nursing homes in their jurisdictions starting next week if they believe they are incorrect. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday started sending out 40,000 notices to state, local and tribal governments across the U.S. to let them know they have through June 2023 to a request a review of their “group quarters” populations if they feel they were undercounted during the 2020 census. People living in group quarters were among the hardest populations to count during the once-a-decade head count of U.S. residents.