Federal Adoption Laws
Sealed adoption records will make your search less than easy. To add to the dilemma, federal adoption laws are governed by rights and privileges guaranteed by the Freedom of Information Acts as well as by the Right to Privacy Acts, but are enacted and administered by individual states. "Information" and "Privacy" are the key words in the names of the important laws that guarantee citizens the right to access records contained in executive agency and department files pertaining to themselves, and guarantees that information can be withheld whenever the information disclosed would clearly constitute an invasion of privacy. Adoption laws were created "in the best interest of the child" to protect the privacy rights of both the adoptive family and birth parents. All states protect minor children. After the child becomes an adult, however, the protection of the "child" would seem irrelevant, but this is not always the case. |
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