After the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic coincided with the United States’ ten-year census count, Bastrop County is working to modify their outreach strategy.
Bastrop County’s complete county committee had originally planned to hold in-person outreach events on and around April 1, which was Census Day. These in-person outreach events would give an opportunity for people to fill out the census or ask questions about the census. Now, due to social distancing measures in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, Bastrop County’s census outreach strategy has had to pivot to a more digitally-focused strategy, said Julia Cleary, Bastrop County planner and a ...