Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 340 - Department of Human Services
Chapter 110 - Licensing Services
Subchapter 5 - Requirements For Child-Placing Agencies
Part 3 - REQUIREMENTS FOR ADOPTION AGENCIES
Section 340:110-5-32 - Disposition of records and confidentiality
Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
The adoption agency (agency):
(1) establishes policy and procedure ensuring permanent retention of all finalized adoption records meeting the Oklahoma Adoption Code, Section 7508-1.1 et seq. of Title 10 of Oklahoma Statutes (10 O.S. §§ 7508-1.1 et seq.). When the agency ceases operating in the state of Oklahoma, adoption records are transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) or, after giving notice to DHS , to a transferee agency assuming responsibility for records preservation;
(2) maintains all records in locked storage facilities; and
(3) provides adult adoptees and birth parents information concerning the adoptees' origins and adoption circumstances , per the Oklahoma Adoption Code, 10 O.S. §§ 7501-1.1 et seq..
Amended at 10 Ok Reg 2273, eff 6-11-93; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 2828, eff 10-1-02 (emergency); Amended at 20 Ok Reg 955, eff 5-12-03; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 1092, eff 6-1-06
