Curran Participates in Census Scientific Advisory Committee Despite Official Cancellation

Posted: 9/5/2025 ()

CSDE Director Sara Curran recently participated in a public advisory panel to advise the Census Bureau on its plans for implementing differential privacy and its new Environmental Impacts Frame.  The work was originally scheduled as part of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee, which the Trump administration disbanded this past spring. Members of the committee met anyway on Sept. 18 after reconstituting as an independent panel.  “The [Census] Bureau continues to need independent expert advice, so that didn’t change,” said Barbara Entwisle, the chair of the former governmental committee and now head of the independent panel, in an interview with Government Executive. “So what impact will we have? I don’t know. But what I can say for sure is that if we don’t do this, then we won’t have an impact.” You can watch the recorded session and read more here.