COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Department of Health this week plans to release previously closed adoption records to hundreds of thousands of adults around the state.

Friday will be the first day that adoptees, or their children and grandchildren, may request adoption records for the period 1964 to 1996.

The adoption records usually contain the original birth certificate and may also include biological parent release forms and/or biological sibling release forms.

Ohio Senate Bill 23, which was passed by the Ohio General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. John R. Kasich in December 2013, modified state law governing records of adoptions that were finalized between January 1, 1964, and September 18, 1996.

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