Florida

Fact-Checking Florida HB357

First published on November 20, 2017 • Last updated on January 31, 2019

When you fact-check claims of anonymous people who tell adoptees to swallow inequality, the decision is easy. No to HB357. It’s yet another disaster.

Opposition Mounts Against Florida ‘Adoptee Rights’ Bill

First published on October 30, 2017 • Last updated on November 3, 2018

Adoptees and more than two dozen state and national organizations oppose Florida’s HB357, a badly flawed anti-equality bill

When Something is Nothing and Nothing is Something

First published on October 24, 2017 • Last updated on November 3, 2018

Florida’s HB357 creates an inequitable two-class system of OBC access that requires a forty year period to pass after an adoption before most adoptees can obtain original birth certificates upon request.

What’s at Stake: Florida

First published on September 27, 2017 • Last updated on February 28, 2021

If proposed legislation in Florida does not preserve a clean and unrestricted right to an OBC, then it will strip away rights from those who have already held them for decades.

Florida

First published on February 27, 2017 • Last updated on June 5, 2025

Adoptee rights and Florida law, with a focus on original birth certificates, court records, descendants, and adult adoption.