California Family Code

§ 9201

FAM § 9201 Effective Jan 1, 2017Div. 13 · Part 2 · Ch. 7

Statute text

(a)Except as otherwise permitted or required by statute, neither the department nor a licensed adoption agency shall release information that would identify persons who receive, or have received, adoption services.

(b)Employees of the department and licensed adoption agencies shall release to the department at Sacramento any requested information, including identifying information, for the purposes of recordkeeping and monitoring, evaluation, and regulation of the provision of adoption services.

(c)Prior to the placement of a child for adoption, the department or licensed adoption agency may, upon the written request of both a birth and a prospective adoptive parent, arrange for contact between these birth and prospective adoptive parents that may include the sharing of identifying information regarding these parents.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 612, Sec. 11. (AB 1997) Effective January 1, 2017.