California Alliance for Adoptee Rights
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Working to restore the right of unrestricted access to OBCs for all California adoptees https://caallianceforadopteerights.org/ #adopteesky
California Adoptees and Equal Rights supporters everywhere, 🥚
Another way to make your voice heard re: SB381 is the comment section on Legiscan.
Please leave a quick comment of support if you can (and “like” any comments you agree with). Education is important right now. #adopteerights
Another way to make your voice heard re: SB381 is the comment section on Legiscan.
Please leave a quick comment of support if you can (and “like” any comments you agree with). Education is important right now. #adopteerights
California SB381 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session
Summary (2026-01-20) Vital records: adoptees’ birth certificates. [January 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.]
legiscan.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
California Adoptees and Equal Rights supporters everywhere, 🥚
Another way to make your voice heard re: SB381 is the comment section on Legiscan.
Please leave a quick comment of support if you can (and “like” any comments you agree with). Education is important right now. #adopteerights
Another way to make your voice heard re: SB381 is the comment section on Legiscan.
Please leave a quick comment of support if you can (and “like” any comments you agree with). Education is important right now. #adopteerights
SB 381, summarized in a fact sheet 🥚
caallianceforadopteerights.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:23 PM
SB 381, summarized in a fact sheet 🥚
#adopteerights 🥚You know a bill is good when Bastard Nation supports it. #sb381
bastards.org/14780-2/
bastards.org/14780-2/
California SB381: Letter of Support | Bastard Nation
There is no state interest in keeping original birth certificates sealed from adult adoptees to whom they pertain nor does the state have a right or duty to mediate and oversee the personal relationsh...
bastards.org
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 PM
#adopteerights 🥚You know a bill is good when Bastard Nation supports it. #sb381
bastards.org/14780-2/
bastards.org/14780-2/
Yes on SB 381.
January 20, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Yes on SB 381.
Reposted by California Alliance for Adoptee Rights
🎉 "California proudly protects bodily autonomy. The state enshrines the right to control your own medical decisions, your own reproductive choices, your own identity.
Unless you’re adopted.
Then California claims the authority to seal your birth certificate..."
Unless you’re adopted.
Then California claims the authority to seal your birth certificate..."
New blog - “Human rights do not disappear at adoption.”
#adopteerights #humanrights
open.substack.com/pub/defendsu...
#adopteerights #humanrights
open.substack.com/pub/defendsu...
January 20, 2026 at 3:48 AM
🎉 "California proudly protects bodily autonomy. The state enshrines the right to control your own medical decisions, your own reproductive choices, your own identity.
Unless you’re adopted.
Then California claims the authority to seal your birth certificate..."
Unless you’re adopted.
Then California claims the authority to seal your birth certificate..."
Reposted by California Alliance for Adoptee Rights
Anyone who has ever attended a municipal government meeting will be familiar with the “there are many people who oppose this but they couldn’t be here” maneuver
Senator Pierson, is thinking of the "silent opposition" and the psychological impacts on a birth/first mother. "Just because there's not opposition here, doesn't mean those people don't exist... We must take their well being into account as well"
January 14, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Anyone who has ever attended a municipal government meeting will be familiar with the “there are many people who oppose this but they couldn’t be here” maneuver
Access to one's OBC is a fundamental human and civil right and current laws reflect outdated, mid-20th century beliefs about adoption secrecy that have been disproven time and again. YES on SB 381
January 19, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Access to one's OBC is a fundamental human and civil right and current laws reflect outdated, mid-20th century beliefs about adoption secrecy that have been disproven time and again. YES on SB 381
Adult adoptees in CA are denied the right to their own original birth certificate. SB 381 restores equal access to this record. It is not about contact, reunions, or confidential communications. It's simply about allowing adults to access the document that records the true facts of their birth.
January 19, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Adult adoptees in CA are denied the right to their own original birth certificate. SB 381 restores equal access to this record. It is not about contact, reunions, or confidential communications. It's simply about allowing adults to access the document that records the true facts of their birth.
Sealing original birth certificates (OBCs) after adoption is an outdated and discriminatory practice rooted in stigma, not necessity.
In the era of DNA testing and social media, secrecy no longer exists. What remains is a policy that simply denies adoptees equal access to their own identity.
In the era of DNA testing and social media, secrecy no longer exists. What remains is a policy that simply denies adoptees equal access to their own identity.
January 19, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Sealing original birth certificates (OBCs) after adoption is an outdated and discriminatory practice rooted in stigma, not necessity.
In the era of DNA testing and social media, secrecy no longer exists. What remains is a policy that simply denies adoptees equal access to their own identity.
In the era of DNA testing and social media, secrecy no longer exists. What remains is a policy that simply denies adoptees equal access to their own identity.