States: Mississippi

Mississippi

Sealed:  1955

Access Status: Sealed

  • Identifying information can be released through a state-maintained “centralized adoption records file,” subject to birth parent consent.
  • Illegal for one birth parent to reveal the identity of another birth parent.

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.)

 

2023 Legislation:  HB 11, HB1018, SB2075, SB2087, (OBC); HB138. HB2377, HB2386 (SHBB) (HB759 (other)

2022 Legislation: (HB168/SB2350 ( nternational)     SB2332 (OBC)     HB1018 (OBC)

2021 Legislation:  SB 2092 (OBC); SB 2205 (OBC); HB 190 (information)

2020 Legislation:  HB635 (OBC)

Legislation 2019:  S2045 (OBC)

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LINKS

VIDEO:  House Judiciary hearing on SB 2205/ strikeoff, March 2, 2021

VIDEO:  Senate vote on SB 2205, February 5, 2021 (10:21 marker)

I want the truth: Dying man, 83, desperate for adoption answers. Why can’t he get them? Jackson Clarion-Ledger. April 5, 2019

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Updated January 26, 2022

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Comments 1
  • I feel it is so unfair for adoptees not to have access to their birth records especially for health purposes. I am 68 years old (next Thursday), and I cannot answer any questions my doctor ask me about health issues on either side of my parents. I have registered on this site years ago to no avail. I was adopted in Mississippi in 1956. My entire adopted family is deceased from 6 years back to 30 years ago when my adopted mother died.I WANT TO KNOW ‘WHO’ I AM’

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