PeoPle WHo Are lGbtQ Are likelier to be crime victims Judge rules census violated order, demands mass text to workers.

PHOENIX » The first study of its kind found that people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or gender nonconforming are nearly four times as likely to be victims of violent crime than those outside such communities.

Although other research has long shown that LGBTQ people and gender minorities are disproportionately affected by crime, the study published in Science Advances, a multidisciplinary journal, on Friday looked only at data collected since 2016, making for the first comprehensive and national study to examine the issue.

It found that members of such communities, referred to as sexual and gender minorities, experienced a rate of 71.1 violent victimizations per 1,000 persons a year, compared with 19.2 per 1,000 a year among people not in those groups.

But it was the fact that sexual and gender minorities are victims of such a variety of crimes at such disparate rates — and who they’re victimized by — that surprised researchers, said lead author Andrew R. Flores, an assistant professor at American University.

Researchers found that such a population is much more likely to be victimized by someone they know well.

ORLANDO, FLA. » A federal judge ordered the Census Bureau to text every 2020 census worker by Friday, letting them know the head count of every U. S. resident is continuing through the end of the month and not ending next week, as the agency previously had announced in violation of her court order.

The new order issued late Thursday by U. S. District Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., instructed the Census Bureau to send out a mass text saying an Oct. 5 target data for finishing the nation’s head count is not in effect and that people can still answer the questionnaire and census takers can still knock on doors through Oct. 31.

The judge also ordered Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham to file a declaration with the court by the start of next week confirming his agency was following a preliminary injunction she had issued last week.