Wisconsin
Sealed: 1939
Access Status: Sealed
- Court order or state-operated Adoption Records Search Program
- Consent of one or both birthparents (depending on circumstances) required
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.)
- Access law and extended summary
- Wisconsin State Legislature
- 2023 Legislation: SB15 (OBC)
- 2022 Legislation: SB483/AB502 OBC); SB524/AB577 (OBC) SB594/AB631 (Safe Haven)
- 2021 Legislation: SB524/AB577 (OBC) LRB3158/1 (Safe Haven)
- 2020 Legislation: AB579/ SB521 (held over to 2020)
LINKS
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- AB 579 hearing in Committee on Family Law video1( 11:00), January 7, 2020
- WMOT Radio, Manitowoc, January 20, 2020. interview with sponsor Tittl who ways bill will be amended with restrictions.
- Advocates Ask for Wisconsin Bill to Die, Bastard Nation, January 26, 2020
- Bastard Nation comments on Rep Tittl’s comments on adding restrictions to already flawed “access bill,” Bastard Nation, January 29, 2020
- Begging for Scaps: Wisconsin adds DV to already bad bill. Silence ensues, Bastard Nation, February 12, 2020
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- David B Bohl: Adoption task force needs input fo adoptees, The Cap Times, Madison, July 8, 2019
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Wisconsin SB 521: What in the world is Wisconsin doing? Daily Bastaretete, November 29, 2019
- My Big Problem With Wisconsin’s Bill, Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Center, December 21, 2029
- What in the World is Wisconsin Doing?, (Updated) Bastard Nation, December 21, 2019
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- Craig Hickman: Letter to a Wisconsin Bureaucrat, Daily Bastardette December 9, 2007
Video
Maravelous testimony by Greg Luce (Adoptee Rights Law Center) in support of AB502, January 26, 2022
in support of
Updated January 10, 2022
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