California IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Migrant Worker Recount Assailed

Census takers on Friday went into the fields of northern San Diego County at dawn to recount migrant workers, but the effort drew criticism from homeless advocates, who said they were “suspicious” of the results because the Census Bureau provided no advance notice. Despite the skepticism, census officials proclaimed that they now had a “quality count” of the migrants. The Census Bureau, acknowledging it had botched the count earlier in the week, said it made procedure changes, using more bilingual census takers and retraining “enumerators” before embarking on the recount.