States: Florida

Florida

Sealed:  1947

Access Status: Sealed

  • Access by court order only
  • Mutual consent registry

Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center, 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.ead about current OBC access. 

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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2023 Legislation: HB373 (OBC)

2022 Legislation: SB1390/HB1389(OBC)

2021 Legislation: HB1333/SB1700 (OBC).    SB122:/SB133  (Safe Haven Baby Boxes);

2020 Legislation::   HB89 /SB302 (OBC  H1217/S864

2019 Legislation:  HB597/SB832302  Safe Haven Baby Boxes

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In October 2017 over 25  adoptee rights, adoption reform, and child welfare organizations throughout the US wrote a letter of opposition to the complicated, convoluted, compromised  HB357 and its companion SB756  authored by Rep, Richard Stark. Go to the BN 2017 Legislative page for details on the bill. The letter is here.

Opposition groups are:

Access Rhode Island
Adoptee Rights Campaign
Adoptee Rights Law Center
Adoption Rights Alliance (Ireland)/The Philomena Project
ALARM Network
American Adoption Congress
Banished Babies of Ireland
Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Organization
California Open
Canada Open
Concerned United Birthparents
Donaldson Adoption Institute
Equal Access Oklahoma
Equality for Adoptees
FAIR – Florida Adoption Initiative Reform
Indiana Open Access
Michigan Open Access
Minnesota Coalition for Adoption Reform
Missouri Open
NAKASEC
National Center on Adoption and Permanency
Nevada Open
New York State Adoptee Equality
Open Adoption Records in Quebec
PACER
Saving Our Sisters
Trace Hentz

The only support came from two small Facebook pages:  Occupy Adoption Florida and FLARE

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Updated: March 7, 2023

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