General Information
- How to request information
- Controlling Legislation: Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act, RSA 2000, Chapter C-12, Sections 74 & 75
- Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Political, Search, and Reunion
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- Alberta Adoption–Search and Reunion (Facebook)
- Canada Open Records (Facebook) (Bastard Nation Partner)
- Metis Nation of Alerta (Facebook)
- Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta
- Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta (Facebook)
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Access
Age of access: 18 years
Adult adoptee access to their original full name: Unconditional
Adult adoptee access to their own OBC in full: For adoptions completed prior to 2005,is conditional on no veto being in place. For adoptions completed on or after January 1, 2005, the access is unconditional.
Adult adoptee access to other identifying information about their natural parents: Conditional – subject to vetos for adoptions finalized prior to January 1, 2005. Section 74. Available for adoptions completed January 1, 2005 or later.
Section 74.3(2).
Natural parents of adult adoptee access to identifying information: Conditional – subject to vetos for adoptions finalized prior to January 1, 2005. Section 74.2. Available for adoptions completed January 1, 2005 or later. Section 74.(2). For adoptions that took place prior to January 1, 2005:, can be placed bya natural parent adult adoptee on behalf of an adult adoptee without his or her knowledge or consent by an adoptive parent Section 74.2(4) and (9) Expire upon the death of the person whose information it pertains to. Section 74.2(6) (The onus of proof is on the person seeking the information about the deceased person.)
Disclosure Vetoes: Vetos for adoptions that took place prior to January 1, 2005, can by placed by:a natural parent, an adult adoptee on behalf of an adult adoptee without his or her knowledge or consent by an adoptive parent. Section 74.2(4) and (9) Expires upon the death of the person whose information it pertains to. Section 74.2(6) (The onus of proof is on the person seeking the information about the deceased person.)
Contact Preferences or Contact Vetoes: For adoptions that took place January 1, 2005 or later, contact preference forms can be filed by: a natural parent and adult adoptee Section 74.3
Passive registry: Available to an adult adoptee, an adoptee age 16 or over, living independently from their guardian, a minor adoptee on request of the child’s guardian, descendant of a deceased adoptee, an adoptive parent of a deceased parent.a natural parent, an adult sibling, another natural relative of the adopted person, with consent or proof of death of a natural parent. Section 75(1)
Active search available: Not available
Particularly bad things: The ability of adoptive parents to place vetoes on behalf of adult adoptees without their knowledge or consent (section 74.2(9) treats adult adoptees like children and like property
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Links
- Your baby is dead: Mothers say their supposedly stillborn babies were stolen from them, National Post, March 23, 2012
- Sixties Scoop survivors pressure Alberta to move forward with apology, CBC News, June 14, 2017,
- Alberta’s Notley set to apologize to province’s 60s Scoop survivors, APTN National News, May 16, 2018
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‘We are sorry:’ Alberta premier formally apologizes to ’60s Scoop survivors, Global News, May 28, 2018
- Ottawa orders teen to return to Hungary, where she has nowhere to go, The Globe & Mail, December 13, 2019 (see Hungary for more)
- Bosnian orphans in Calgary fearing deportation due to years-old adoption oversight. Global News, August 7, 2020
- Hope’s Cradle in Southern Alberta to provide safe alternative to baby abandonment, Republic Americas, November 3, 2021
Updated November 6, 2021
