Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) The assessor
shall inform birth parents who enter into a voluntary surrender agreement that:
(1) Birth parents will be required to
complete the JFS 01693, "Ohio Law and Adoption Materials"
which will indicate their
decision regarding the release of identifying information to the adopted person
or adoptive parent. The JFS 01693 shall be signed at least seventy-two hours
prior to the time the consent to the adoption is executed.
(2) Birth parents have the option, at any
time or for as many times as they want, to reverse their decision regarding the
release of identifying information by contacting the Ohio department of health
(ODH) and requesting a copy of a denial of release form or a copy of an
authorization of release form.
(3)
Unless the birth parents have signed the denial of release of information on
the JFS 01693, identifying information can be released to:
(a) The adoptive parent when the adopted
person is under eighteen years of age and the adoptive parent submits a request
to ODH.
(b) The adopted person when
the adopted person is at least eighteen years of age and the adopted person
submits a request to ODH.
(B) The assessor shall inform the adoptive
parent(s) that when:
(1) The adopted person is
under eighteen years of age, the adoptive parent can submit a request to ODH to
request a copy of the contents of the adoption files which may include
identifying information about the birth parents.
(2) The adopted person is eighteen years of
age or older, the adopted person can submit a request to ODH to request a copy
of the contents of the adoption files which may include identifying information
about the birth parents.
(3) The
adopted person is eighteen years of age or older, the adopted person can submit
a request to ODH authorizing ODH to assist the adopted person's birth parents
or birth siblings in finding the adopted person's name by adoption. The adopted
person may alter this decision at any time or for as many times as the adopted
person wants by submitting a request to ODH.
(C) The public children services agency
(PCSA) or private child placing agency (PCPA) shall provide the birth parent
with the address for ODH to obtain instructions regarding the filing of
authorizations.
(D) Upon written
request, the PCSA or PCPA shall provide the following nonidentifying
information to the adopted person age eighteen or older, an adoptive parent of
an adopted person under age eighteen or an adoptive relative of a deceased
adopted person:
(1) A birth parents' age at
the time the birth parents' child was adopted.
(2) The medical and genetic history of the
birth parents.
(3) The age, sex,
and medical and genetic history of an adopted person's birth siblings and
extended family members.
(4) The
heritage and ethnic background, educational level, general physical appearance,
religion, occupation, and cause of death of the birth parents, birth siblings
and extended family members.
(5)
Any information that may be included on the JFS 01616, "Social and Medical
History."
(6) Any information that
is not deemed as identifying information as defined in rule
5101:2-1-01 of the
Administrative Code.
(E)
Subject to a determination made pursuant to division (E) of section
3107.66 of the Revised Code, the
PCSA or PCPA shall provide, upon written request, the following nonidentifying
information to the birth parent of an adopted person eighteen years of age or
older, a birth sibling age eighteen or older or a birth family member of a
deceased birth parent:
(1) An adoptive
parent's age at the time of adoption.
(2) An adoptive sibling's age at the time of
adoption.
(3) The heritage, ethnic
background, religion, educational level and occupation of the adoptive
parent.
(4) General information
known about the well-being of the adoptee before and after the
adoption.
