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  1. Signatures
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    1. The Governor of GA (+ 2 others)
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      • The Governor of GA
      • The GA State Senate
      • The GA State House
  2. Created By
    Sharon Travis
    Glasgow, KY
About this Petition Petition Letter

This letter is addressed to all Georgia legislators asking them to reverse the state law that seals adoption records and enact a law that allows adult adoptees access to his or her complete adoption records.

The request is based on the belief that the current Georgia law is not only outdated and unnecessary but is unconstitutional.

Recent Signatures

Unseal Georgia Adoption Records

Greetings:

This letter is written to ask you to enact legislation to unseal Georgia adoption records, especially those records for all of the now-adult Georgia adoptees.

The law that keeps our records sealed is archaic, outdated and no longer necessary. It placed, and still places, an undue burden of responsibility on the birthmother at the time of the adoption regarding future disclosure. It is considered cruel by many.

No other law is written with the express purpose of controlling a future event in the way Georgia [and other similar state] adoption laws are written. If I am correct, legally, laws are cannot address future events. In other words, I cannot sue someone because he/she might do or not do something in the future. I can only bring an action against someone for an act already committed.

Legislators must understand that the birthmother is not the only person affected by an adoption. With the current laws, adoptees go through life with wounds that never heal. If you do not believe me, just ask an adoptee. Time does not heal all wounds, for anyone.

I do not believe current laws that seal adoption records are constitutional for several reasons. Among those reasons are birth certificates which are modified as the result of adoption. I agree with others who feel that modifying a person's true birth certificate is falsifying a legal document, which is against the law regarding every other legal document there is.

There are many, many reasons to repeal the sealed adoption record laws in Georgia and other states with similar laws.

I respectfully ask that you give this issue serious consideration and take action for and on behalf of adoptees and birthparents in Georgia and in the states with similar laws.

Thank you.

[Your name]

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