Section 5-356 – Medical and Mental Health Information
(a) A local department shall make reasonable efforts to compile and make available to a prospective adoptive parent: (1) all of the prospective adoptee’s medical and mental health records that the local department has; or (2) a comprehensive medical and mental health history of the prospective adoptee. (b) On request of an adoptive or prospective adoptive parent, a local […]
Section 5-357 – Court and Department Records
(a) (1) (i) On request of an adoptee or adoptive or former parent of an adoptee and without a showing of a need, a local department shall provide information, other than identifying information, in its adoption record on the adoptee. (ii) If a local department denies a request under this paragraph, then on petition of an adoptee or adoptive […]
Section 5-358 – Urgently Needed Medical Information
(a) If, after a hearing on a petition of an adoptee or former parent, a juvenile court is satisfied that the adoptee or blood relative of the adoptee or former parent urgently needs medical information not in local department and juvenile court records, the juvenile court may appoint an intermediary to try to contact the adoptee […]
Section 5-359 – Vital Records
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings stated. (2) “Director” means the State Director of Social Services. (3) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health. (b) This section applies only to an adoption in which a juvenile court enters an order for adoption on or after January 1, 2000. (c) This section does not bar: (1) an adoptee or […]
Section 5-360 – Access for Adoptive Parent
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, access to a dental or medical record of an adopted minor may not be denied to a parent of the minor because the parent is an adoptive parent. (b) Access to a dental or medical record under this section may not include access to any part of the record […]