Census Worker Sex Offender: Would You Let This Guy Into Your House?

See BS ^ | 5/20/2010 | Kealan Oliver

[markomalley]

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. (CBS) File this under creepy and scary.

A New Jersey woman was on her toes when she somehow recognized a census worker who came to her house was actually a registered sex offender.

Frank J. Kuni, a registered sex offender in Pennsauken, used a fake name to get a job as a U.S. Census worker, said police.

CBS affiliate KYW said, now he is facing several charges after his true identity was recognized.

Pennsauken resident Amy Schmalbach said Kuni knocked on her door on May 4 portraying a census worker. While asking her several questions, Schmalbach was trying to realize why the man looked familiar to her, reported KYW.

After soon realizing where she saw his face before, she quickly shut the door and called police. Schmalbach recognized Kuni's face from the New Jersey's sex-offender registry online.

Kuni was arrested and investigators said the man is being held at the Camden County Jail. He is facing charges of impersonating a public official and false representation, reported the station.

[markomalley]

No, I wouldn't let this guy on my property, much less in my house.

[G Larry]

I have no legal obligation to make time for these clowns a priority!

[WayneS]

“Yesurday, I cud not spel sensus werker, tuday I are one.”

[jmcenanly]

Actually, Census workers are not allowed to go into people's homes.We were told this consistently during training, and we were sent emails repeating this during our time in the field.
I will admit that recently hiring standards for the Federal government seem to be lax at all levels.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

We are the Feds, we want to help you.

[autumnraine]

Someone either attended his training in his place or the crew leader didn’t follow the process.

I, and everyone in my training group was fingerprinted and scanned for background check before we were given assignments. Something is REALLY wrong with this picture

[autumnraine]

The more I think about this, the more I wonder if he just didn’t swipe someone’s census stuff. The id tag (no picture), the board on and in our cars, etc... If a census worker had this stuff in her car, he could have stolen it.

I can’t see anyone getting around those fingerprints. I know they work because one of the trainees couldn’t do it from a burglary back in the late 70’s.

[kingu]

Frank J. Kuni, a registered sex offender in Pennsauken, used a fake name to get a job as a U.S. Census worker, said police.

Kuni was arrested and investigators said the man is being held at the Camden County Jail. He is facing charges of impersonating a public official and false representation, reported the station.

Soooo... Umm, was he a census worker or not? As the first part says he was, but the charges seem to indicate he wasn't. Either that, or some pretty durn creative charging, since his identity didn't match the census identity.

[SMARTY]

Sounds like these people are being vetted with the same scrupulous attention to detail/facts that was used to ‘qualify’ Obama’s eligibility to the Presidency.

[sniper63]

"used a fake name to get a job as a U.S. Census worker, said police."

By chance was it Barack?

[momtothree]

I agree. In fact, maybe it is just the urban type setting that I live in but I don’t even open my door unless I know the person (via a peephole). Is anyone surprised that the federal government didn’t do its job and check backgrounds?

[kaila]

I had a census worker call my workplace four times , trying to find me. I had filled out my census form, and mailed it prior to the deadline. This census worker had me mixed up with someone else who had the same name as me. The census worker called Human Resources to get my office number, and then proceeded with the work phone calls. I basically chewed her out on the fourth work phone call, and called her superiors. I told them this was harassment, and she was calling the wrong person.
It was shocking to me that they have the gall to find out where a person works, and do harassment phone calls at the workplace.
I think I got this census worker in trouble. Her superior offered a letter of apology. I told them the phone calls were in line with a bill collector, and completely not appropriate.

[Ro_Thunder]

He was a census worker, under a different name (Think Dallas Cowboys registered to vote in Las Vegas).

So, his real name is not an authorized census worker/government employee, and VOILA! He’s impersonating a public official.

[buschbaby]

Another article I read yesterday said they are so backlogged on fingerprinting that the guy was in the field working before they got the results. Supposedly he did fail the fingerprinting, but they couldn’t find him to fire him. Not sure how true that is, sounds more like CYA.

[Big Horn]

I think they tried to do a good job of testing ,screening etc. of census workers, but when you hire that many people it is possible for some bad ones to slip through the cracks.
Some of the census workers put themselves at risk when knocking on the door of criminals.

[jmcenanly]

It is not that I don’t believe you, but this doesn’t sound like what we were allowed to do. We visited houses, not individual people, and we could only go to an address three times, or else ask a proxy, usually a neighbor or a real-estate agent, about who lived there. We do not follow people to their place of work. Whoever is doing this is facing dismissal and possible criminal charges.

[autumnraine]

Well, they screwed up by not lining up training until the very last minute. I completed training on a Friday, was out in the field on Saturday.

[kaila]

It actually happened to me yesterday. This census worker asked the landlord of the person she was trying to contact ( not me, but same name). He gave the census worker 2 locations where he thought she worked. The census worker contacted Human Resources, got my phone number at work.
This census worker received a talking to, but I doubt they are going to do anything more.