Minnesota
Sealed: 1939
Access Status: Restricted
OBCs will be open without restriction July 1, 2024
Minnesota’s Equal Rights Law: A FAQ (Adoptee Rights Law Center)
- Complex access based on date of adoption
- Generally, adoptees who are 19 years of age and adopted on or after August 1, 1977, have restricted but greater rights to access their OBCs than those who were adopted prior to August 1, 1977.
- Disclosure Veto no matter what the date of adoption
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2023 Legislation: SF1279 (OBC)
2022 Legislation: SF328/HF470 (OBC)
2021 Legislation: SF328/HF470 (OBC) HF1559?SF1726 (Safe Haven)
2020 Legislation: HF2906/SF2606 (OBC)
Links
- VIDEO: SB1279 Hearing, Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee hearing, March 1, 2023 (marker 3:18:20)
- SB1279 Minnesota Moves Along. Bastard Nation, March 18, 2023
- VIDEO: SB1279. Senatge Judiciariy and Public Safety Committee hearing, March 24, 2023 (marker: 1:04:56
- Minnesota Becomes 15th State to Acknowledge Adoptee Birth Record Equality, May 25, 2023
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Black mother says she was told her daughter died—but the baby was secretly adopted by white parents. Daily Dot, August 13, 2020
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Memorandum on SF2606, Overview and Explanation of Sections. Adoptee Rights Law Center, April 10, 2019
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- Adoptee access bill reintroduced in Senate, Minnesota Coalition for Adoption Reform website, ND.2018
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- Letter From Elise Lewis: Minnesota’s adopted deserve access to their original birth certificates, Rochester Post-Bulletin, June 21, 2017
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- Minnesota Post. Adult Adoptees Should Have an Unconditional Right to their Own Birth Certificates by Jim Hamilton, March 14, 2013
- James Hamilton’s written testimony before the House Human Services Policy Committee, March 13, 2013
- Listen to James Hamilton’s testimony before the House Human Services Policy Committee here (about 2/3 through)
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- PioneerPress/Twin Cities.com. Adoptees Should Have the Right to Know their Origins by Jim Hamilton, May 22, 2008.
- The Daily Bastardette. Minnesota: Deform Measure Goes Down, May 17, 2008
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Search Services: Evaluation and best practices: report to the 2006 Minnesota Legislature
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- The Daily Bastardette. Birth Certificates for the Never Born, April 4, 2005
Updated: July 3, 2023
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