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***Non-identifying information***
Information can be requested from the adoption file by contacting the adoption agency that handled the adoption. The non-identifying report should have most or all of the following about the birth family. If the information you currently have was given to your adoptive parents at the time of your adoption you should request “updated non-id”. Or, if the report does not contain all of the information below contact the agency for updated information:
A. Age of birth parents at the time of relinquishment
B. State of birth of birth parents
C. Marital status of birth parents
D. Other siblings born before the adoptee to the birth parents
E. Physical description of birth parents
F. Ethnicity of birth parents
G. Religion of birth parents
H. Occupation of birth parents
I. Education of birth parents
J. Information about aunts, uncles and grandparents such as ages and occupations
K. Reason for relinquishment
***Waiver for Consent to Contact Form***
The Waiver is a form that can be used by adoptees, relinquished siblings or birthparents to give their permission for contact should a waiver be filed by both
parties.
NOTE: If the name of the agency is not known, or if it was a private adoption, this office can be contacted for the above services:
State of California
Dept of Social Services, Adoptions
744 P Street MS 3-31
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone: 916-651-8088
CalOpen.org Launches As Rallying Point
for a Growing Adoptee Rights
Ballot Measure Movement
Sacramento, CA (May 19, 2004) - CalOpen.org, the website at the center of a growing statewide grassroots movement calling for a ballot measure to secure adult adoptee access rights to their own state held birth record, has been launched as the rallying point for California voters who believe privacy and identity should be an exercised right by all citizens.
Located at
www.CalOpen.org , the website features information on how to get involved, legislation tracking, a message board, and will soon bring news and educational materials. Most importantly, the site encourages those impacted by sealed birth records to sign up as members and to immediately get involved by joining one of the organization’s working regions.
"We’re calling on all who have been impacted by the 1935 sealing of records to join the statewide grassroots movement at CalOpen.org," said Jean Uhrich, one of the organizers of the equal rights movement. The new website will act as a rallying point to help organize those who seek to involve and reform a flawed and antiquated law that threatens best adoption practice for thousands of families and endangers California's privacy and equal rights protections. Everyone’s voice matters in whether our efforts succeed.
About Cal Open
CalOpen is a statewide grassroots effort whose mission is to organize and mobilize support around reforming sealed adoption records laws, especially how it pertains to the exercising of privacy and identity rights, and to obtain access relief for those who are burdened with unjust secrecy about their own lives. The Movement is made up of honest taxpayers who are organizing regionally and statewide on a volunteer basis to seek voter action in a ballot measure initiative. For more information and to get involved, visit
www.CalOpen.org or send an email to
info@calopen.org.
Email:
California Website:
Other great websites to check out:
http://www.adoptionchat.com
http://www.adoptionlists.com
http://www.adoption.com
http://www.adopting.org
http://www.adoptionregistry.com