"It's a social justice issue."Ohio is the ninth state to make all its records available to adoptees, she said.Under the law, birth parents who placed a child for adoption between 1964 and 1996 had ...

Under a law passed in 2013, about 400,000 people adopted in Ohio between Jan. 1, 1964, and Sept. 18, 1996, will gain access to birth records beginning March 20. The law provided birth parents a ...

Sponsored by state senators Bill Beagle and Dave Burke, the legislation makes 40,000 Ohio adoption records, from Jan. 1, 1964 to September 18, 1996, available to adoptees.

A new law grants Ohio adoptees access to their adoption files and birth certificates. Jennifer Hutt was one of several hundred people who walked in to the Office of Vital Statistics in Columbus on ...