A bill allowing adult adoptees to access their original birth certificate passed through the Utah Legislature Friday with a final vote in the House.

The bill approved on a 43-5 vote Thursday would reverse a 1994 measure that sealed adoption information that didn’t have a disclosure consent form.

Findings like McCoy’s and Centerville resident Beth Miller, who was adopted at birth, are becoming more common with DNA technology and an Ohio law unsealing adoption records, a state adoption ...

USA TODAY found the adoption flag consistently missing or marked as “unable to determine” in the records of more than 400,000 kids served by the child welfare system from 2008 to 2020.

Nine years ago, I filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Baltimore to unseal and allow access to my pre-adoption records and OBC. Despite having already met my biological family through the ...

Old adoption records housed at a state agency in St. Paul soon could become a more important resource for people researching their family histories. Minnesota is making plans to digitize about 5 ...

Birthlink has been fined £18,000 after shredding the files to free up space in its filing cabinets four years ago.

For the first time since 1935 when the state sealed adoption records, adoptees will be able to obtain their original birth certificate when they turn 18 and find out the names of their birth parents.

HB129 would allow adults to easily access their adoption records, giving them access to their family medical history.