Alabama
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Sealed: 1991
Unsealed in 2000
Current Access Status: Unsealed
- OBC available without restriction or condition to adoptees age 19 and older
Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center [2], Bastard Nation is linking our individual state pages to ARLC state access law links and summaries. In addition. our state pages include information specific to Bastard Nation actions and activities in each state.
Read about current OBC access legislation with links to current and past years bills at our”Keep Informed” legislative pages (middle sidebar.)
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- Alabama Access Law and Extended Summary [3]
- Alabama Legislature website [4]
- Order your unrestricted OBC [5]
Legislation 2019 [6]SB6
How Alabama Helps Texas
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May 15, 2000: In a moment of historical symmetry, Alabama, which in 1991 was the last state in the U.S. to deny adoptees access to their own records, has become the first to open them unconditionally by legislative action.
In addition to the sealed birth certificate, any evidence of the adoption contained within the same file will be released as well.
- Internet Archive: Alabamians Working for Adoption Reform and Education (AWARE) [8] – Bastard Nation Partner
AWARE Co-Chairs
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LINKS
- Bastard Nation Mourns the Death of the Honorable Jeff Dolbare, State Representative of Alabama, [13] August 2004
- Victory in Alabama [14] by Dr, David Ansardi and Sandra Pears Wilson, Bastard Quarterly, Summer 2000
- Bastard Nation press release [15]on the restoration of right to OBC access in Alabama. May 15, 2000
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Updated: May 12, 2021
Return to list of states. [17]