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Open Letter from New York Adoptee Rights Coalition to New York State Adoption Equality

February 22, 2019
New York Adoptee Rights Coalition

In our recent meeting with you and others in Albany, Assembly Member Weprin requested that all advocacy groups—including the American Adoption Congress, NYSAE, and Unsealed Initiative—unite with us to pursue enactment of the Weprin/Montgomery bill. In an unprecedented response, the AAC and Unsealed Initiative agreed and committed to the bill, as did the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition and its partners. You and NYSAE, however, continued to insist on pursuing a competing bill that has little support in the legislature and will cause confusion among legislators and advocates as the Weprin/Montgomery bill moves ahead.

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2019: Indiana SB197 Notes

January 10, 2019

Indiana Open Access January 8 at 7:45 PM ·  SENATE BILL 197 “Copies of Identifying Adoption Information”, Sen. Randy Head Bill linkhttp://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/senate/197…# Mandates:Those with “Identifying Information” are to hand it over to the adoptee when requested …

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American Samoa

January 2, 2019

American Samoa Ten years ago dozens of Amerian Samoan children were trafficked to the US and other counties through Focus on Children adoption agency and it is unclear if current records access laws were in place at …

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US Marshall Islands

US Marshall Islands (US Associated State) Sealed: unknown Current Status: unknown Marshall Islands adoption is rife with corruption and crime. Linked below are a few selected news stories, but none contain references to OBC and another government-held adoption …

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