Arkansas
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Sealed: 1935
Access Status: Restricted
- Conditional access at age 21
- Redaction provision;
- Birthparent veto or other release conditions extend beyond the death of birthparent ( Zombie Veto)
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.)
- Current Access Law and Extended Summary [3]
- Arkansas Legislature [4]
- OBC order details and other information [5]
- Getting your Arkansas Original Birth Certificate [6] by Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Center (Put on your hiking boots! Includes an exhausting flowchart.)
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In the late 1990s Bastard Nationals got an unrestricted/unconditional bill introduced into the Arkansas legislature. That same legislature at the time contained soon-to-be TV “star” Jim Bob Duggar with only half the family he has now. Jim Bob was vocally opposed OBC access and was partially responsible for the bill’s death.
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And speaking of the Duggars…Would it surprise you to know that Jim Bob and Michelle are fans of anonymous baby abandonment via Safe Haven Baby Boxes? Me neither. Here is a picture of the couple with SHBB founder Monica Kelsey at the “blessing” of the box in Rogers, Arkansas on March 12, 2021. (From SHBB Facebook page) [8].
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- 2023 Legislation: [10] SB195 (Traditional Safe Haven) HB 1098 (Safe Haven Bb Boxes)
LINKS
Go to Marshall [11] Islands page for MI-AR trafficking cases
- Bastard Nation Letter to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson: Please veto SB168–Baby Box bill, [12] February 19, 2019
- Bill to add fire stations to baby-box sites clears Arkansas panel [13], Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 31, 2019
- Arkansas Senate bill expands places people can leave unwanted babies includes baby boxes, [14] OzarksForst,com, February 6, 2019
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- Adoption papers received by man who led fight for Arkansas adoptees. [15] KAIT-Jonesboro, August 2, 2018
- Arkansas adoptees can request files starting Aug. 1 [16]. KARK-Little Rick, July 31, 2018
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- Law plans to unseal thousands of previously sealed birth certificates of adopted Arkansans. [17] KATV-Little Rock, March 22, 2017
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- Allow adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates and related court documents [18] by Westley Ashley, Arkansas Times, December 17, 2015
- Reconsidering the Presumption: A proposal to provide Arkansas adult adoptees open access to their original birth records [19] by Westley Ashley, Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service, April 16, 2015
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- The Great Debate: Do adopted children have a right to know about their birthparents? [20] by Shanna Wells. Glamour, May 1999
Updated February 6, 2023
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