Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 5 - Office of Health Informatics
Subpart 85 - Public Health Statistics
Chapter 3 - Registration of Live Births
Subchapter 11 - Adoption of Mississippi Born Children
Rule 15-5-85-3.11.5

1. An affidavit is not on file expressly prohibiting the release of any information about such birth parent's identity and location, and prohibiting any licensed adoption agency from conducting a search for such birth parent under the terms of the Mississippi Adoption Confidentiality Act or a notice of contact with the birth parent for that adoptee is not on file.

2. A licensed adoption agency has requested the information while acting on behalf of any person specified in Miss. Code Ann.§ 93-17-207 who requests non-identifying medical, social or genetic background information and the information is not on file and an affidavit prohibiting a search for the birth parent has not been filed or a notice of contact with the birth parent for that adoptee is not on file. In this case, only non-identifying information may be furnished by the licensed adoption agency to the person so identified in Miss. Code Ann. § 93-17-207.

3. A licensed adoption agency providing post-adoption services has requested the information while acting on behalf of any person twenty-one (21) years of age or over who has been adopted in this state, providing however, that the birth parent has not executed an affidavit prohibiting the release of such information or that a notice is not on file that such birth parent has been contacted once and has refused to authorize the release of confidential information.

4. Payment of the required service fee.