Following the Orange County Civic Center's Changing of the Flags ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, OCBA President Ashleigh Aitken (Aitken Aitken Cohn LLP) was interviewed by Weekend, a Times Community News publication. "It's important, both for our lawyers and for our clients, that when we go into the courthouse and advocate for equality, justice and due process before the law that we don't walk outside that same courthouse and see something that's a symbol of oppression, inequality and divisiveness," Aitken said. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.

For information on the OCBA's 2013 Resolution seeking the removal of the Mississippi State Flag due to its incorporation of the Confederate Battle Flag in its design, please click here.

Photo by Orange County Register Staff Photographer Ana Venegas.