California AG Bonta apologizes for agency’s role in Japanese internment during World War II
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a formal apology Thursday for his office’s role in the forced relocation and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps during World War II. The apology comes more than three years after the California Legislature issued its own formal apology%20%E2%80%94%20The%20California%20Assembly,and%20their%20families%20looked%20on.) for the state’s role in the internment program, ordered by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1942. It was supported by Earl Warren, who served as state attorney general and governor du...