States: Idaho

Idaho

Sealed: unknown

Access Status: Sealed

Access available only by court order or conditionally through a state-operated “voluntary adoption registry.”
Disclosure of an original birth certificate through the registry is subject to consent of the parties; may require the consent of both birth parents.

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.

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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Just when you think Idaho can’t get any worse…only adoptees 40 years of age and older are mature and experienced enough to maybe obtain their own OBCs. (Video courtesy of Adoptee Rights Law Center)

On March 29, 2022, Idaho’s governor signed S1320, a ridiculous bill that does nothing to serve the state’s already living adoptees and won’t even be “useful ” to anyone until 2039. They all its cutting edge.” Here is what it does: