Japanese Latin American Commission Bill
Scope and Contents
The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese descent was established to investigate and determine the facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation, internment, and deportation of Latin Americans of Japanese descent from December 1941 through February 1948. The story of internment of Japanese Latin Americans was made known after a fact-finding study by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians that Congress authorized in 1982. Because Japanese Latin American’s were excluded from The Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and subsequently reparations from the US government, the Commission was set into place to produce facts to initiate redress.
Dates
- From the Series: Creation: 1942-2010, bulk 1970-2010
Conditions Governing Access
Access restrictions apply to certain records in the papers that have been determined to contain sensitive personal or government information. Series assessed to contain sensitive information will remain closed until 2028 with the exception of Constituent Services Case Work, which contains high levels of personal identifiable information. Constituent Services Case Work will be available to requesting individuals upon review and approval of the archivist or librarian managing the Property. Individual files or records assessed to contain sensitive information may also carry restrictions. Series assessed with medium risk may be made available to the researcher after the files are reviewed for sensitive information or formats. Series assessed to be of low risk of disclosing sensitive information may be open and available to researchers.
Low risk: The following series pose little risk of revealing sensitive information and could be made available to the public with little harm: Administrative Files, Campaign Files, Constituent Services(Correspondence and Projects), House Records, Kaho’olawe, Native Hawaiian Issues, Japanese Latin American Internment, Personal, Political Affairs, Speeches, Scheduling Files, Medal of Honor, Legislative Files, Photographs, Public Relations, Books, and Subject Files.
Medium risk: ABSCAM, Staff Files, Born-Digital (format-based), Microfilm.
Series with sensitive information: Constituent Services (Case Work), Watergate, Iran-Contra, and subseries containing records related to military and defense appropriations.
This collection may be accessed in the John Troup Moir Jr. and Gertrude M.F. Moir Archives Reading Room on the fifth floor of the Hamilton Library addition. Reading room hours and policies can be found on the archives website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/library/research/collections/archives/visiting-us/. If you have questions, please contact the archives by email: archives@hawaii.edu or phone: (808) 956-6047.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries Repository