Florida
Sealed: 1947
Access Status: Sealed
- Access by court order only
- Mutual consent registry
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.ead 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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2023 Legislation: HB373 (OBC)
2022 Legislation: SB1390/HB1389(OBC)
2021 Legislation: HB1333/SB1700 (OBC). SB122:/SB133 (Safe Haven Baby Boxes);
2020 Legislation:: HB89 /SB302 (OBC H1217/S864
2019 Legislation: HB597/SB832302 Safe Haven Baby Boxes
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In October 2017 over 25 adoptee rights, adoption reform, and child welfare organizations throughout the US wrote a letter of opposition to the complicated, convoluted, compromised HB357 and its companion SB756 authored by Rep, Richard Stark. Go to the BN 2017 Legislative page for details on the bill. The letter is here.
Opposition groups are:
Access Rhode Island
Adoptee Rights Campaign
Adoptee Rights Law Center
Adoption Rights Alliance (Ireland)/The Philomena Project
ALARM Network
American Adoption Congress
Banished Babies of Ireland
Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Organization
California Open
Canada Open
Concerned United Birthparents
Donaldson Adoption Institute
Equal Access Oklahoma
Equality for Adoptees
FAIR – Florida Adoption Initiative Reform
Indiana Open Access
Michigan Open Access
Minnesota Coalition for Adoption Reform
Missouri Open
NAKASEC
National Center on Adoption and Permanency
Nevada Open
New York State Adoptee Equality
Open Adoption Records in Quebec
PACER
Saving Our Sisters
Trace Hentz
The only support came from two small Facebook pages: Occupy Adoption Florida and FLARE
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- LINKS–
- 2022:
- Bastard Nation Letter of Opposition to SB870 Safe Haven Baby Boxes, March 7, 2023
- Florida: Bastard Nation letter in opposition to Safe Haven Baby Box SB 122. Senate Appropriations Committee, April 19, 2021
- The (Ongoing) Truth About Florida by Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Center, March 13, 2021
- Video: House Children Families, and Seniors Subcommittee hearing; (24:00 marker)
- Bastard Nation Letter to the Florida House Children, Families, and Seniors Subcommittee, SB 133, DO NOT PASS, February 13, 2020
- Video: Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Health and Human Services Hearing, February 9, 2021 (31:27 marker)
- Video: Senate Health Policy Committee Hearing, January 27, 2021 (Marker 11:47)
Bastard Nation Letter/Testimony to the Florida Senate Health Policy Committee in opposition to SB 122 authorizing use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, January 27, 2021
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- Push for Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Florida to Reduce Illegal Infant Abandonments, Spectrum News, January 23, 2020
- Reworked” Florida Bill Does Absolutely Nothing, Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Center, January 29, 2020
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Baby box bill gets House panel OK, FlaPol, February 4, 2020
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Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony/Letter in Opposition: H1217–Baby Box Bill, Bastard Nation, February 18, 2020
- Action Alert. Florida. Stop Baby Safe haven Drop Boxeds, Daily Bastardette, March 8. 2020
- No Baby Drop Boxes for Florida This Session: Bills are dead, Daily Bastardette, March 15, 2020
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Action Alert. Florida: Stop Baby Safe Haven Drop Boxes, Daily Bastardette, March 20, 2020
- Safe Haven Baby Boxes Coming to Florida Soon, Daily Bastardette, November 4, 2020
- Florida Baby Box Update: Ocala Marks the Spot!! Daily Bastardette. November 21, 2020
- Joe Harding files ‘baby box’ bill for parents giving up children. Florida Politics, December 30, 2020
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- Bastard Nation letter to House Health and Human Services Committee, Vote No on HB597 March 21, 2019 VIDEO of hearing
- Bill would make it easier for adoptees to get original birth certificates, WCTV-Tallahassee, March 13, 2019
- Reworked Florida bill does absolutely nothing by Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Center, March 12, 2019
- Bastard Nation Testimony on HB587–Vote NO, March 11, 2019
- Adoptee Rights Law Center/Bastard Nation Joint Action Alert: Florida HB597–Vote No, March 9, 2019
- Open Letter to Representative Richard Stark by Greg Luce Adoptee Rights Law Center, March 3, 2019
- Florida Bill: Reunion required to get your OBC by Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Center, January 31, 2019
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- The Truth about Florida, Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Blog, December 6, 2017
- Florida HB357/SB576: CUB Joins Opposition. Occupy Florida Please Go Home! November 22, 2017.
- Thanksgiving Greeting, November 22, 2017
- Fact Checking Florida’s HB357, Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Center, November 21, 2017
- Florida HB357/SB576: Two Prominent Adoption Organizations Join the Opposition, November 9, 2017
- Florida HB357/SB576: CUB Joins Opposition. Occupy Florida Please Go Home! November 22, 2017.
- Florida HB357/SB576. Adoptee equality: as slow as fleas falling off a dead dog, The Daily Bastardette, November 2, 2017
- Donaldson Adoption Institute Statement of Opposition to HB357/SB576 (Facebook), October 31, 2017
- Letter to Rep. James Grant, Chair, House Quality Health Subcommittee from Greg Luce, attorney/ founder, Adoptee Rights Law Center, October 31, 2017.
- Joint Letter in Opposition to HB357/SB576 from National/State/and International AdopteeRights/Equality and Adoption Reform Organizations sent to sponsors of both bills, and House Quality Health Care Subcommittee, October 30, 2017
- When Something is Nothing and Nothing is Something, Greg Luce, Adoptees Rights Blog, October 24, 2017
- What’s at Stake: Florida, Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Blog, September 28, 2017
- POINT OF VIEW: Give adult adoptees same rights as other citizens Rep. Richard Stark, Palm Beach Post, May 28, 2017.
- Open Adoption Records, Capital News Service, March 17, 2017
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- The Daily Bastardette: Florida–Questions about “Safe Haven” and Adoption Agency Privilege, November 11, 2011
- The Daily Bastardette: David Bundy: Get a Life! November 19, 2007
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- eriksmith.org: The Florida Adoption Act: a Masterpiece of Absurdity, by Erik L Smith, Esq., January 2006
Updated: March 7, 2023
