Alabama
Sealed: 1991
Unsealed in 2000
Current Access Status: Unsealed
- OBC available without restriction or condition to adoptees age 19 and older
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.
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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Legislation 2019 SB6
How Alabama Helps Texas
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May 15, 2000: In a moment of historical symmetry, Alabama, which in 1991 was the last state in the U.S. to deny adoptees access to their own records, has become the first to open them unconditionally by legislative action.
In addition to the sealed birth certificate, any evidence of the adoption contained within the same file will be released as well.
- Internet Archive: Alabamians Working for Adoption Reform and Education (AWARE) – Bastard Nation Partner
AWARE Co-Chairs
LINKS
- Bastard Nation Mourns the Death of the Honorable Jeff Dolbare, State Representative of Alabama, August 2004
- Victory in Alabama by Dr, David Ansardi and Sandra Pears Wilson, Bastard Quarterly, Summer 2000
- Bastard Nation press release on the restoration of right to OBC access in Alabama. May 15, 2000
Updated: May 12, 2021
im looking for my sibling my mother put up for adoption i just found out about day before yesterday my mother has passed away but i would love to know how to find her.