Two Brooklyn Census Managers Fired Over Faked Surveys

26-June-2010

About 10,000 census surveys in Brooklyn are being redone after two local managers reportedly filled out many of the household surveys themselves, officials said.

Tony Farthing, the regional director of the Census Bureau, said that over the weekend of June 12, the two managers, Alvin Aviles and Sonya Merritt, began using online databases to fill out household surveys instead of collecting the information the correct way: by knocking on doors.

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