States: Ohio

Ohio

 

 Sealed: 1964

Access Status:  restricted

  • Tiered
  • Adoptions prior to 1964:  unrestricted access to your “adoption file,” which typically contains the original birth certificate and adoption decree
  • Adoptions from January 1, 1964, through September 17, 1996: must be at least 18 years of age to request the adoption file. Identifying information may be redacted if a birth parent has previously filed a “name redaction request.” Birth parents could file name redaction requests only until March 19, 2015, and previously filed redaction requests may be withdrawn at any time. About 250 denied access.
  • Adoptions after September 17, 1996: you must be least 21 years of age if you make the request or 18-20 years of age if your adoptive parent makes the request. File will be released unless one or both birth parents have filed a “denial of release form.” Identifying information is redacted for a parent if only one of the two birth parents listed has filed a denial of release form.

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 and 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.)

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Updated November 2018
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