Five state and national adoptee rights organizations have requested that Wisconsin legislators set aside two bills that were recently heard in Senate and Assembly committees.
My Big Problem With Wisconsin’s Bill
I support the unrestricted release of identifying information. I do not support mixing that all up and calling it an OBC under a different name.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin law does not provide adult adoptees unrestricted access to their own original birth certificates. Wisconsin “impounds” original birth certificates after adoptions and releases them only by court order or through Wisconsin’s Adoption Records Search Program.