- Georgia
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Sealed: 1935
Access Status: Unsealed July 1, 2025
Unrestricted access for all Georgia-born adoptees at the age of 18. It also applies to an adopted person’s parent, sibling, or descendant, if the adoptee is deceased.
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.ead about current OBC access.
Adoptee Rights Law Center FAQ: A Guide to Getting Your OBC in Georgia [3]
- 2025 Legislation [5] HB350 (Baby Box). SB1000 (OBC access)
- 2023 Legislation: [6] SB64 (OBC) – passed Senate, carried over to 2024
- 2020 Legislation: [7] HB881 (safe haven, baby box)
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LINKS
2025
- Good News from Georgia: Two Victories [9], Bastard Nation, March 10, 202
- Georgia OBC Countdown: 35 Days to Go! [10], Bastard Nation, May 16, 2024
- Georgia 1-Step Closer to Full Bastardization: SB100 on the way to the Governor [11], Bastard Nation, May 26, 2025
- A Connection to Who You Are”: Georgia Lifts Decades-old Restrictions on Adoptee Birth Certificates [12], The Imprint, May 30, 2026
- Georgia: Come and Get ‘Em! OBCs Unsealed Today! [13], Bastard Nation, July 1, 2025
- Update on OBC Request from Vital Records [14] October4, 2028
2024
- Bastard Nation Letter of Support for SB64 to the House of Representatives [15], January 20, 2024
2023
- SH64: Bastard Nation Letter of Support to Senate Children and Families Committee [16], February 28, 2023
- VIDEO: [17] Hearing, Senate Children and Families Committee, February 28, 2023 [18]
- Adoptee Rights Marches Through Georgia: SB64 passes out of the Senate Childen & Families Committee [19], Bastard Nation, March 2, 2023
- VIDEO: [20] SB64 Senate Floor Vote: 54-0
- Georgia SB64: Another Step to VIctory. Passes Senate 54-0! [21] Bastard Nation, March 7 2023
- Bastard Nation Letter of Support to House Judiciary Committee, March 13, 2023 (see Senate letter above; just slightly different)
- VIDEO [22]: Hearing House Judiciary Committee, March 14, 2023 (Marker 32:13)
- Georgia SB64: One More Step [23], Bastard Nation, March 15 2023
- Bastard Nation Letter to Georgia House and Speaker Burns, March 29. 2023: What’s the Hold Up, [24] Bastard Nation, March 29, 2023
- SB63: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, March 29, 2023 Bastard Nation, March 30, 2023
- 2020
SB64: Georgia lawmaker proposes adding ‘baby boxes’ for relinquished infants [25], Fox 5 Atlanta, February 11, 2020
2019
- TLC’s Taken at Birth Investigates Black Market Adoption Ring That Illegally Placed 200 Babies [26]. People, October 8, 2019
2014
- Georgia HB 594: Update and Action Alert [27], January 28, 2014
- Georgia HB 524: Bastard Nation Testimony for HB 584; Opposition to Welch Amendment [28], January 2014
- Hicks Babies [29] Facebook
2003
- Marley Greiner, Exe, Chair of Bastard Nation discusses adoptee rights and legislation in Georgia with host Linda Hammer, WTMY-AM Sarasota, April 26, 2003
1998
- Macon Telegraph, Adoptees Protest [30] Law that Keeps Them from Heritage, [30] Macon Telegraph, December 4, 1998
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Updated: October 4 2025
Return to list of states. [31]
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