Michigan To Open Adoption Records

Michigan is attempting to implement child welfare services reform which adopts components of transparency by opening adoption records by 2012.

In the wake of information technology and electronic recordkeeping, the States must respond to the will of the public in the demand of open records.  The movement to reunify children with parents whose rights have been terminated began through social networking sites like facebook.

By and through the First Amendment, the right of free speech in child welfare is slowly beginning to take form.  Of course there will be child abuse propaganda that will argue against open records, but their voices should be the ones most closely examined.

Any child welfare organization which lobbies for continued sequestering and sealing of child welfare records should be the first ones that should be placed under the scrutiny of state and federal investigative entities for the known and likely known fraudulent activities of improper billing.

"He who smelt it, dealt it."

2010 House Bill 6419 (Authorize birth parent contact preference forms )

September 8, 2010, Introduced by Reps. Valentine and Liss and referred to the Committee on Families and Children's Services.

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

"Michigan vehicle code,"

(MCL 257.1 to 257.923) by adding section 226d.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 226d. Beginning July 1, 2011, when the secretary of state

sends out notifications for renewal of vehicle registrations, the

following shall be printed on the envelopes in which the

registration notifications are enclosed:

     "Michigan adoption records will be open January 1, 2012. For

more information, contact the Michigan department of community

health or refer to www.michigan.gov/dch.".

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

unless House Bill No. 4015 of the 95th Legislature is enacted into

law.

2009 House Bill 4015 (Authorize birth parent contact preference forms )

Introduced by Rep. Lesia Liss (D) on January 22, 2009, to allow a former parent of an adopted individual to submit to the central state adoption registry a contact preference form. The form would specify whether the individual would or would not like to be contacted by the grown child (directly or through an intermediary), and whether he or she does or does not want their identity to be made known to the grown child. The form would allow for an updated medical history to be filed that could be released to the grown child regardless of the other options selected. .

• Referred to the House Family and Childrens Services Committee on January 22, 2009. 

Michigan's Consolidated Child and Family Services Plan 2010-2014