On August 10, 2023, the 35th anniversay of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued an historic statement and apology acknowledging the complicity of the California Attorney General’s Office in the incarceration and dispossession of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the Japanese American National Musuem, the Florin Chapter of JACL, and the California Asian Pacific American Bar Association presents a community education event featuring a keynote by civil rights leader Don Tamaki, a fireside chat with Attorney General Bonta with JANM President and CEO Ann Burroughs, and a panel discussion with community leaders and scholars, moderated by Susan.