Mississippi
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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 [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.
Read about current OBC access legislation with links to current and past years bills at our”Keep Informed” legislative pages (middle sidebar.)
2023 Legislation: [5] HB 11, HB1018, SB2075, SB2087, (OBC); HB138. HB2377, HB2386 (SHBB) (HB759 (other)
2022 Legislation [6]: (HB168/SB2350 ( nternational) SB2332 (OBC) HB1018 (OBC)
2021 Legislation: [7] SB 2092 (OBC); SB 2205 (OBC); HB 190 (information)
2020 Legislation: HB635 (OBC)
Legislation 2019: S2045 (OBC)
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LINKS
VIDEO [8]: House Judiciary hearing on SB 2205/ strikeoff, March 2, 2021
VIDEO: Senate vote on SB 2205, [9] February 5, 2021 (10:21 marker)
I want the truth: Dying man, 83, desperate for adoption answers. Why can’t he get them? [10] Jackson Clarion-Ledger. April 5, 2019
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- Right to know identity of birthparents still unaddressed in Mississippi [11]. WREG-Memphis, March 26, 2018
Updated January 26, 2022
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