Russell Haas claims he was just doing his job, following his training, and enforcing federal law when he went onto a police officer’s property on the slopes of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii’s Puna district to make sure the home’s owner received his 2010 Census forms.  However, the cop saw things differently, forced Haas off his property, and had the census official arrested by Hawaiian police.  Despite an uptick in hostile actions towards census workers, this is the first time one’s been arrested in the line of duty for simply doing his job.

“When this guy showed me his badge, I went, ‘Dude, you have to be in the Census, what are you talking about?'” said Haas, a former New Jersey police officer himself.  Now it’s the state versus the federal government, with Haas stuck in the middle.  All he wanted to do was leave the forms with the resident; now he finds himself in the midst of a territorial squabble between one of the nation’s most anti-census states and the government.

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