Georgia
Sealed: 1935
Access Status: Sealed
- court order only
- adoption agencies may release identifying information with written consent of birthparents
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.)
- 2023 Legislation: SB64 (OBC) – passed Senage, carried over to 2024
- 2020 Legislation: HB881 (safe haven, baby box)
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LINKS
2023
- SH64: Bastard Nation Letter of Support to Senate Children and Families Committee, February 28, 2023
- VIDEO: Hearing, Senate Children and Families Committee, February 28, 2023
- Adoptee Rights Marches Through Georgia: SB64 passes out of the Senate Childen & Families Committee, Bastard Nation, March 2, 2023
- VIDEO: SB64 Senate Floor Vote: 54-0
- Georgia SB64: Another Step to VIctory. Passes Senate 54-0! Bastard Nation, March 7 2023
- Bastard Nation Letter of Support to House Judiciary Committee, March 13, 2023 (see Senate letter above; just slightly different)
- VIDEO: Hearing House Judiciary Committee, March 14, 2023 (Marker 32:13)
- Georgia SB64: One More Step, Bastard Nation, March 15 2023
- Bastard Nation Letter to Georgia House and Speaker Burns, March 29. 2023: What’s the Hold Up, Bastard Nation, March 29, 2023
- SB63: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, March 29, 2023 Bastard Nation, March 30, 2023
2020
SB64: Georgia lawmaker proposes adding ‘baby boxes’ for relinquished infants, Fox 5 Atlanta, February 11, 2020
2019
- TLC’s Taken at Birth Investigates Black Market Adoption Ring That Illegally Placed 200 Babies. People, October 8, 2019
2014
- Georgia HB 594: Update and Action Alert, January 28, 2014
- Georgia HB 524: Bastard Nation Testimony for HB 584; Opposition to Welch Amendment, January 2014
- Hicks Babies Facebook
2003
- Marley Greiner, Exe, Chair of Bastard Nation discusses adoptee rights and legislation in Georgia with host Linda Hammer, WTMY-AM Sarasota, April 26, 2003
1998
- Macon Telegraph, Adoptees Protest Law that Keeps Them from Heritage, Macon Telegraph, December 4, 1998
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Updated January 20, 2024
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I am interested in getting my original birth certificate.Born in 1957 in Jacksonville,Fl.Adopted in Georgia, not sure which state I need to petition? Adoption in 1958. Uh
Stanley – It gets complicated when there are two different states involved that have restricted access. We have a bill active in GA right now though that would give all adoptees 18 and older the right to obtain their birth certificate. Contact info@gaallianceforadopteerights.org for more info.