[pmarler]

The whole sealed records issue is a failed social experiment
that needs to be sent to the garbage can.

Sealed records to the person of interest, the adopted adult
is actually a civil rights issue. The Bill of Rights gives us ALL
the right to our personal papers, but legilsators forgot this
small detail when they sealed adopted adults' records. This
took away our equal rights and made us second-class citizens,
treated UN-equally by the law.

In Oklahoma, we have an organization that is working to
open the records of adopted adults. This is NOT a search
and reunion issue, it really IS a civil rights issue.

If you are thinking about getting an organization together
to fight open records, you would do well to research this
issue as we have. You will come to the same conclusion
we have, that it is a civil rights issue. We are expecting our
rights to be returned to us legislatively, since they were
removed that way.

Yes, there is alot of opposition to this. Legislators haven't
even thought about the civil rights issue, their heads are still
in the reunion mode. This will have to change. Hopefully, there
will be enough adopted people interested in changing the
laws to start working in many states. It isn't enough to try
and get a medical registry. It would be a waste of time and
another government law heaped on the backs of adults that
don't deserve it. We need UNCONDITIONAL open records.
We shouldn't have to tell anybody why we want our records,
they should be ours to have. Period.