§ 36-1-135. Updated Medical Information in Records — Searches for Persons Affected
The department shall update its post-adoption records with any medical, psychological or psychiatric information provided by an adopted person or a person for whom records are maintained, as described in § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A), eighteen (18) years of age or older, or such person’s legal representative, or by such person’s adoptive or legal parent if the adopted […]
§ 36-1-136. Notification Made as Part of Search, Contact or Identifying Requests
Any notification required to be made as part of a search or a contact or an identifying request pursuant to this part for an adopted person or a person for whom records are maintained as described under § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A), shall be made with such persons who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older, except […]
§ 36-1-137. Inability of Department to Verify Adoptive Status of Relationships — Waiting Period to Request Further Searches — Limitations on Searches
If, after reviewing the sealed adoption records, the sealed records or the post-adoption records, and any other credible evidence, and after conducting a diligent search and making any other reasonable inquiries as to the adoptive status of a requesting party or the relationship of the biological or legal relatives to the adopted person or any […]
§ 36-1-138. Court Orders for the Release of Information From Adoption and Sealed Records
Any necessary information in the files or the record of an adoption proceeding or in an adoption record, sealed adoption record, sealed record, post-adoption record or adoption assistance record may be disclosed pursuant to the requirements of subsection (c), to the party requiring it, upon a written, sworn motion before the court of original jurisdiction […]
§ 36-1-139. Penalty for Providing False Information Related to Information Requests
Any person who or entity that knowingly provides false information to the department, a licensed child-placing agency or licensed clinical social worker, or the court in connection with any of the provisions of §§ 36-1-125 — 36-1-138 or § 36-1-141, or the rules and regulations of the department that establish procedures for search requests or […]
§ 36-1-140. Immunity for Actions in Good Faith by Department Personnel and Immunity of Certain Other Persons
The actions of the personnel of the department, or the departments of health, finance and administration, and general services, or their successors, undertaken in the performance of their duties pursuant to §§ 36-1-125 — 36-1-138 or pursuant to § 36-2-318, or those actions of a licensed child-placing agency or licensed clinical social worker when acting […]
§ 36-1-125. Confidentiality of Records — Penalties for Unauthorized Disclosure — Protected Orders
All adoption records, sealed adoption records, or sealed records held by a court, the department, a licensed child-placing agency, a licensed clinical social worker or any other person, and not yet under seal, or any sealed adoption records or sealed records that have been unsealed for any reason, any post-adoption records, and any adoption assistance […]
§ 36-1-126. Record Kept Under Seal — Confidential Records — Access to Certain Records — Preservation of Records
After the entry of the final order of adoption; After entry of the final order dismissing the adoption; After entry of an order revoking the surrender or parental consent; After entry of an order dismissing a termination of parental rights proceeding filed in conjunction with an adoption proceeding; or Upon conclusion of all termination of […]
§ 36-1-127. Availability of Records to Adopted Persons and Certain Other Persons for Adoptions Finalized or Attempted Prior to Certain Dates
On March 16, 1951, Chapter 202 of the Public Acts of 1951 became effective. As a result, all records related to persons who had been adopted, all records concerning a person for whom any records were maintained and that may have related to an adoption or attempted adoption and that were treated by the department […]
§ 36-1-128. Contact Veto Registry — Persons Eligible to Have Names Entered
The department shall establish and maintain a contact veto registry for the purposes of permitting registration of the willingness or unwillingness of the persons or classes of persons named herein for contact with persons eligible to have access to any records covered by this part; provided, that the contact veto registry shall not be applicable […]