NEW: South Dakota is sharing driver's license and state ID records with the Census Bureau to help the Trump administration figure out the U.S. citizenship status of every adult living in the country, NPR has learned.
Asked why the South Dakota Department of Public Safety decided to enter into this data-sharing agreement with the bureau, spokesperson Tony Mangan replied by email:"South Dakota's Driver Licensing program is authorized to share information for use by any government agency in carrying out its functions. Information was provided at the request of the U.S. Census Bureau to carry out its function.
"All data that the state program agency agrees to provide the Census Bureau remains confidential," South Dakota's agreement says, later specifying that the bureau can only use the information for"statistical purposes and not for program or administrative enforcement."
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