New Jersey
Sealed: 1940
Access Status: Restricted
- Unrestricted access for adoptees 18 and over
- Exceptions: 550 adoptees whose birthparent(s) filed a Disclosure Veto before January 1, 2017; persons who were “safe havened” as newborns whether or not their files contain identifying information
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.)
- 2023 Legislation: A1359, A4110,S2828( Trad. Safe Haven)
- 2022 Legislation: A2671 (baby boxes)l A1350 (Trad afe Haven)
- 2020 Legislation: A3391 (Safe Haven ), A3378 (Safe Haven) JHB 3378 (baby boxes)
- A4479
- S3005
- A3385
- A1380
- S1126
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LINKS
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- What is a Conditional Veto? Daily Bastardette, June 24, 2011
- New Jersey Update: Christie Will Conditionally Veto: Offers “compromise,” Daily Bastardette, June 22, 2011
- Sad Day for New Jersey Bastards: A1406/1599/S799 passes: adoptees sold down the river, May 9, 2011, Daily Bastardette, May 9, 2011
- Bastard Nation Letter to the New Jersey General Assembly–Vote NO on A1406, Daily Bastardette, May 7, 2011
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- New Jersey ACLU’s Deborah Jacobs Lobs Another Foul, Daily Bastardette, August 292, 2010
- New Jersey Update: Adoptees Birthright Bill Reported Shelved Until Fall–But act now to kill It, Daily Bastardette, June 22, 2010
- New Jersey A1406/S799: Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony in Opposition, Daily Bastardette, June 15, 2010
- New Jersey Update: S799 Passes Senate: Adoptees jilted, Daily Bastardette, March 23, 2010
- New Jersey 5799; The New Jersey Follies: Desire over rights, Daily Bastardette, March 8, 2010
- New Jersey Piece-a-crap is Baaaccckkk!: SB799, March 1, 2010, Daily Bastardette, March 1, 2010
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- New Jersey: My Cause is Better than Yours: Adoptees v gays, February 11, 2009, Daily Bastardette, February 11, 2009:
- New Jersey: We leave everybody behind, Daily Bastardette, December 10, 2009
- New Jersey: This is Not a Safe Haven, Daily Bastardette, June 13. 2009
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- Letters, We Get Letters. Mothers react to New Jersey Catholic Conference plea for stories, Daily Bastardette, March 7, 2018
- Be Careful of What You Ask For: New Jersey Catholic Conference wants to hear first mother stories, Daily Bastardette, March 5, 2008
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- Dimwits: In the words of 9 New Jersey adoptee-haters, Daily Bastardette, Dember 9, 2006
- Some Adoptees are More Equal Than Others: New Jersey Senate, Daily Bastaradette, December 5, 2006
- Settling for Less Than You Deserve: Bastard Nation rejects all arguments for and against New Jersey S1087, Daily Bstardette, December 2, 2006
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- No to Combi-Compromise Veto Bill. SB2002, SB19232, SB5300, March 12, 2001
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- Pickets seek open adoption records, Asbury Park Press, February 3, 1997
Updated January 25. 2023
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