Do sealed records ever become automatically unsealed after a certain length of time has passed?
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Do sealed records ever become automatically unsealed after a certain length of time has passed?
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I think I read somewhere that sealed records become unsealed after 99 years...when all the parties that they directly affect are dead and gone. Although this might not help me get copies of original documents, it might help my descendents. Anyone know about this?
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I guess I wasn't clear in my question. I am refering to sealed PERSONAL records, specifically adoption records, original birth cretificates, etc.
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mr_crankypants
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Not in the US. In most states they deny adoptees their civil rights by keeping these facts secret from them. There is no expiration date. |
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Yggdrasil Mithos Symphonia
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You are half right.
Clinton passed a law, I'll look it up, but there are exceptions. Some sealed/top secret documents do go back to Lincoln's assasination.
Seems Bush changed it, Quel Suprise!
Executive Order 13292
Also check out the Freedom of Information Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_%28United_States%29
"Between 1995 and 1999, President Clinton issued executive directives (and amendments to the directives) that allowed the release of previously classified national security documents more than 25 years old and of historical interest, as part of the FOIA. This release of information allowed many previously publicly unknown details about the "Cold War" and other historical events to be discussed openly" |
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Heather B
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I hope so, at least then my own descendents will be able to reclaim the ancestry that is rightfully theirs . . . |
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Gershom
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Some states release the records after 99 years....
what a load of crap in my opinion. Yeah we search our whole lives for information they'll give our children once we're dead. |
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Tsunami
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well that could be possible but then what good is that if you are dead and cannot retrieve your stuff. but the thing is you can petition the court where your records are and get them.s ometimes your adopted parents can say no. if they are alive but they shouldn't say that. i can get mine and i will this time when i get up to michigan and go there. its just about 50 they say you pay and can get them. i know its going to say what was goingo n in court. i know my dad wasn't there and that is all and i know he didn't want to really but he did. so what i know the entire story but i feel i need my sealed records because they are mine. |
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Tmarie99
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