NOW: Take our ICE preparedness survey — help us all become ready to respond to ICE encounters in cultural heritage workplaces!
CHAACo wants to help you and your organization get from having resources about preparedness to implementing a plan.
Your feedback helps us understand where the greatest needs and gaps are— what kinds of organizations and workers need support, in which regions, and what sort of support you need.
This is your opportunity to shape our efforts! Do you need more information? Leadership buy-in? A seat at the table? Customized training? Legal referrals? Tell us in the survey!
Please submit your response by the end of September to help us understand if designing a training program will best serve you, and what to focus on! We will continue to accept rolling submissions to inform our ongoing work, but your impact will be greatest now. Thank you!
This anonymous survey is for anyone who works, volunteers, or does contract work on site for a cultural heritage-related organization in the United States.
The purpose of this survey is to gauge self-assessed needs and preparedness for immigration enforcement (or "ICE") encounters at GLAM-sector workplaces. (GLAM is short for "Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums" and includes a spectrum of related organizations, such as zoos and cultural centers.)
The results from the survey will be used internally to help CHAACo (us) tailor our efforts to serve the urgent needs of cultural heritage communities in the United States.
We are interested in gathering qualitative, not quantitative, information, and we recognize that any participant may have limited perspective on their organization's decision-making. We also want to be inclusive of experiences, perspectives, and circumstances that were not anticipated by our survey team. For these reasons, best guesses and inexhaustive answers are completely acceptable, and we have kept some questions intentionally broad or open to participants' interpretation.
For your privacy, this survey is anonymous and end-to-end encrypted, hosted via CryptPad.org, an open-source encrypted platform. To ensure your anonymity, we do not request names, email addresses, personal identity-based information, or other uniquely identifying information, and we do not collect IP addresses. If we come to believe that any submitted answers are personally identifying or provide information about undocumented status, we will anonymize or delete those specific answers in our records within one month of discovery. While CHAACo may share insights gained from the survey, for the safety of our communities, full data sets and complete written answers will not be published.
By submitting a response to this survey, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy policy.
The survey is available to take in English, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese.
Responda a esta encuesta en español.
This survey should take 8 to 15 minutes to complete. Please try to finish in one sitting to avoid losing your progress!
See Troubleshooting below if you run into glitches.
All questions are optional and may be answered to whatever extent is comfortable for you.
In the open response questions, please DO NOT include names or specific identifying information about yourself, other individuals, or your employer/place of employment, and do not identify your immigration status or citizenship.
To reach CHAACo with questions about the survey or about preparedness topics, you can send us a confidential email at:
chaaco [at] proton [dot] me .
CryptPad Forms can be a bit glitchy! Our apologies, we're on a tight budget and prioritized security over a flawless interface. We've noticed a few bugs:
If, when you try to follow a survey link, you receive the message "Uncaught TypeError: cannot read properties of undefined (reading keys)", CryptPad is having trouble decrypting the survey. It may be associated with your particular access session and/or browser cookies. We've found it works to open the survey link in a private/incognito window or a different browser.
If you see automatically added, confusing "helper text" (e.g., "maximum 14 answer(s)"), please ignore it and refer to the end of the question itself for clearer instructions (e.g., "(Select all that apply.)").
Within the survey, two test users found that the page starts to jump up to a previous question after clicking certain responses, but most sessions had no problem. If it happens to you, we would appreciate it if you tough it out and keep scrolling back down! It'll be over soon!
If you leave a tab with the CryptPad survey open for too long, you might find that you are forced to refresh, which means you will lose your progress. We recommend doing the survey in one sitting.
Thanks for your patience! If you give up, you're welcome to us an email with your most important requests and concerns about ICE preparedness, or any other sensitive topics, at chaaco [at] proton [dot] me .
For topics that aren't sensitive, Contact Us here.