Under federal law, the U.S. government must restrict access to people's records for the once-a-decade tally until 72 years after a count's Census Day. The exact origins of that time span are murky.
People conceal parts of their faces with forms for the 2010 count in Puerto Rico in a U.S. Census Bureau poster about how it keeps information confidential. Records for the once-a-decade tally cannot be released until 72 years after a count's Census Day. Once a decade, the U.S. Census Bureau tries to gather the names, home addresses and other details of every person living in the country for a head count.
"Everyone just said, 'You know, 72 years is a lifespan,'"Kratz recalls of the commonly cited explanation she first heard after starting to work at the federal government's archives. Kratz and some longtime census watchers say the letters are part of a spotty trail of clues for their theory about what's behind 72 years — bureaucratic happenstance.
"These records, which cannot be replaced if lost or destroyed, would be of little avail to the public if transferred to the Bureau of Archives without keeping them in that building under the direct supervision of the Director of the Census and provision being made for a number of searchers and correspondence clerks," Census Bureau Director William Lane Austin wrote inBut less than a decade later — during World War II and in the same year of the bureau's move from downtown...
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