➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: With Push From Adoptees, States Open Access to Birth Records
Stateline – August 12, 2016
For many years, adults adopted as children who wanted to find out who their birth parents were ran up against a brick wall because they had no legal right to simply get a copy of their original birth certificate in most states. But that’s been changing, as a growing number of states have been giving adult adoptees more – and in some cases, unrestricted – access to those records.
http://lists.ncsl.org/t/117008/4136053/4782/9/