Ohio
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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parents could file name redaction requests only until March 19, 2015, and previously filed redaction requests may be withdrawn at any time.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 [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 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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LINKS
- What Ohio’s OBC Access Laws Really Restricts? Critical Left-Behinds told to behave [5], Daily Bastardette, July 6, 2015 [6]
- An Ohio Story: Black Boxes by [7] Megan A Collins, June 6, 2015
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- Ohio Sub SB250 Passes. Ohio Right to Life tramps on first parent and adoptee rights, [8] Daily Bastardette, December 23, 2014
- Ohio Will Lose Millions in Revenue if Sub HB250 Passes: Tax credits will subsidize private adoption corporations, [9] Daily Bastardette, December 16, 2014
- Ohio: Rep Buchy Appears to be Unaware of [6]….Or everything that’s s wrong with Ohio Right to Life’s “adoption reform” [6] scam Daily Bastardette, December 12, 2014
- Ohio HB307: Streamline or Screwing? Ohio Right to Life continues its war against first parents and adoptees [10], Daily Bastardette, December 4, 2014
- Ohio HB307: Incurious Insanity Trumps Facts, Part 1: Quick/Fast adoption passes House, [11] Daily Bastardette, February 8, 2014
- Ohio: Sub HB307: Catching up, [12] Daily Bastardette, January 22, 2014
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- Ohio Right to Life’s Infant Adoption Reform Bill Threatens Birthparent Rights: Doles out tax credits [13], Columbus Free Press, December 5, 2013
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- Ohio HB307: Adoption Reform Language Used to Promote Reactionary Adoption Legislation [14], Daily Bastardette, November 22, 2013
- SB23 Passes Out of Committee with Amendment [15]s, Daily Bastardette, April 23, 2013
- Ohio Report: Proponent testimony [16], Daily Bastardette, April 17, 2013
- PAPTherapy: Ohio Right to Life’s quick and easy adoption “reform” hearing, [17] Daily Bastardette, April 6, 2013
- House Passes HB61, [18] April 11, 2013
- Hell Freezes Over Ohio Right to Life drops opposition to OBC access; testifies in support. Read testimony, [19] March 6, 2013
- Hell Freezes Over Again. Ohio Catholic Conference drops opposition to OBC access; testifies in support. Read testimony [20]
- Ohio History: Sealed records author said, “parents don’t have to waste time on heredity [21], Daily Bastardette, April 1, 2013
- HB61 Report: House Judiciary Committee, [22] Daily Bastardette, February 23, 2013
- Presentation to Adoptio [23]n Lawyers on Access to OBC Access in Ohi [23]o by Marley Greiner, Exe.Chair. BN, January 17, 2013
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- Ohio Adoptee Rights Historical Document: HB419 (1995-1996) [24], Daily Bastardette, January 26, 2012
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- Ohio Right to Life is So Thankful: adoptees don’t need rights, [25] Daily Bastardette, November 24, Daily 2011
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- Ohio Lame Ducks Sell Out Families–Expand Safe Havens. Consider abandoned gifts from Mom! [26] Daily Bastardette, December 19, 2008
- Erik Smith’s Opposition Testimony on SB304, [27] Daily Bastardette, May 20, 2008
- Ohio: State Secrets Protect Deadbeat Dumpers, [28] Daily Bastardette, May 17, 2008
- Ohio: Bad News for Buckeyes, [29] Daily Bastardette, May 16, 2008
- Ohio Update: Sealed and Secret Generation Shafted Again, [30] Daily Bastardette, May 16, 2008
- Ohio HB7: BEA Testimony: The deletion of records access from Sub HB7 deletes adoptees from the Ohio landscape [31], Daily Bastardette, May 1, 2008
- Ohio: Kate Livingston’s Testimony: HB7 [32], Daily Bastardette, April 24, 2008
- Ohio: Message for Buckeyes for Equal Access, [33] Daily Bastardette, April 24, 2008
- Ohio Update: HB7: Record access removed [34], Daily Bastardette, April 18, 2008
- Ohio Report: Access testimony on HB7 [35], Daily Bastardette, January 18, 2008
- Ohio: Bad Binkie for [36]Willoughby News-Herald, Daily Bastardette, January 25, 2008
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- Ohio Right to Life Informed Consent v Informed Consent: It’s all situational, [37] Daily Bastardette October 23, 2006
Updated November 2018
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