Oklahoma
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Sealed: 1939
Access Status: restricted
- Court order required for nearly all adoptees
- Persons adopted after November 1, 1997, can access OBC subject to Disclosure Veto
- Adoptees cannot receive OBC if they have adopted birth siblings under the age of 18
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.)
2022 Legislation: [5] HB3330 (birth certificate-international)
2021 Legislation: SB960 (Safe Haven Baby Box)
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PROUD BASTARD NATION PARTNER: EQUAL ACCESS OKLAHOMA [6]
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[8]Oklahoma Original Birth Certificates for All Adult Adoptees [9] is also a non-restricted/non-conditional adoptee rights organization. It is not a BN partner, but we have worked with them for many years, Its chairs are Mary S. Payne and Pat Marler
Read the history of adoption in Oklahoma by Mary S. Payne
- Adoption’s Hidden History: Vol 1. From Native American Tribes to Locked Lives [10]
- Adoption’s Hidden History: Vol 2 Steps to Sealing Records [10]
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LINKS
- Oklahoma SB 960 Safe Haven Baby Boxes: Please vote DO NOT PASS. Personal letter to OK House Rules Committee [11], by Marley Greiner, March 22, 2021
- Oklahoma Legislative Panel Urged to Unseal Adult Adoptee Birth Certificates [12], NewsOK, October 12, 2011
- Oklahoma: HB2634 passes House 93-0 [13], March 15, 2012
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- Adoptees push for news laws [14], Tulsa World, December 4, 1998
Updated January 30, 2022
Return to list of states. [15]