SECTION 340:110-5-32. Disposition of records and confidentiality

  The adoption agency (agency):

(1)   establishes policy and procedure ensuring permanent retention of all finalized adoption records meeting the Oklahoma Adoption Code, Section 7508-1.1 et seq. of Title 10 of Oklahoma Statutes (10 O.S. §§ 7508-1.1 et seq.). When the agency ceases operating in the state of Oklahoma, adoption records are transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) or, after giving notice to DHS, to a transferee agency assuming responsibility for records preservation;

(2)   maintains all records in locked storage facilities; and

(3)   provides adult adoptees and birth parents information concerning the adoptees' origins and adoption circumstances, per the Oklahoma Adoption Code, 10 O.S. §§ 7501-1.1 et seq..

[Source: Amended at 10 Ok Reg 2273, eff 6-11-93; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 2828, eff 10-1-02 (emergency); Amended at 20 Ok Reg 955, eff 5-12-03; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 1092, eff 6-1-06; Amended at 37 Ok Reg 1858, eff 11-1-20]