The ground you’re standing on is liberated territory. Defend it …Abbie Hoffman
Statistics (from Bastard Nation)
Numbers are incomplete, but since 2000, when records began to be unsealed in Oregon, Alabama, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island (Kansas and Alaska records were never sealed) over 20,000 adoptees have successfully accessed their original birth certificates
When possible, these stats are linked directly to state statistic pages; other the links go to state OBC access information pages.
|
STATE |
DATE OPENED |
OBCS RELEASED |
AS OF |
|
Alabama
|
08/01/00 |
5854* |
5/31/13 |
|
01/01/09 |
1226 |
12/31/12 |
|
|
01/01/05 |
1572 |
12/31/12 |
|
|
05/31/00 |
10,990 |
5/31/12 |
|
|
07/01/12 |
827 |
01/22/12 |
|
|
TOTAL |
20,469 |
6/14/13 |
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it…. Eugene V. Debs
Don’t be fooled! Illinois, Tennessee, Delaware, Colorado, and Massachusetts are not free states. Some adoptees in those states can access their OBCs, but others are black holed by restrictions such as a Disclosure Veto or are denied access by a nonsensical tiered access system which denies (or releases) OBCs depending on the date of birth or date of adoption finalization of the adoptee.
*Alabama: includes legitimization records
#Maine: stats not online at this timem but may be some time in the future. These numbers were sent to BN
Updated 8/5/2013
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