Updating Your Information

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Updating your Information

International Soundex Reunion Registry -- ISRR

Florida Adoption Reunion Registry -- FARR

Obtaining Non-Identifying Information

Waivers of Confidentiality

Updating Your Information

The State of Florida maintains the Florida Adoption Reunion Registry (FARR) with the last known names and addresses of an adoptee, his/her adoptive parents, and his/her birth parent (s), and is available for them to enter any other identifying information they desire to include in the registry. (see note below.)

Everyone should try to keep all information maintained about you by FARR up to date.

Useful information includes name changes, marriages or divorces, births or deaths, address or phone number changes, medical and social history, etc.

Consent to the release of this information may be made in the case of a minor adoptee by his or her adoptive parents or by the court after a showing of good cause.
Updating of your information must be done in writing.
You must indicate clearly the people to whom you are consenting to release your information (limited to the adoptee, birth parents, adoptive parents, birth siblings, and maternal and paternal birth grandparents of the adoptee.) (See note below.)
A copy of your driver's license or notarized proof of identification is required, and you must state your role in this adoption (adoptee, adoptive parent, or birth mother or father).
Adoptees should note in their correspondence the names of their adoptive parents.
At any time, any person may withdraw, limit, or otherwise restrict consent to release information by notifying the department in writing. (See note below.)

Contact FARR at 850-922-6234 or 850-488-8000

* Important *

Birthparents, even if you are not searching, you really should update your non-identifying information with the Office of Vital Statistics Adoption Unit. This way, even if your child is not yet searching, valuable and important non-identifying information may be available to them.

-- It is the belief of this site/registry owner that every person should have the right to know their own medical history at the very least, and they deserve to know about their own ethnic/social background as well.

To find out how to update your non-identifying information, please contact Lorraine Kratz, Records Center Manager for the Office of Vital Statistics Adoption Unit at 904-359-6900 ext. 1081 or Cristina Serrano, ext. 1086.


	The International Soundex Reunion Registry -- ISRR
ISRR is the world's largest and most successful mutual consent reunion registry and is a free service. Download their registration form today!

Notes

All citations on this page were taken from 2001 Florida Statutes, found at the "Official Internet Site of the Florida Legislature", Online Sunshine; http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0063/ch0063.htm

The Florida Adoption Reunion Registry -- "The department shall maintain a registry with the last known names and addresses of an adoptee and his or her parents whose consent was required under s. 63.062, and adoptive parents and any other identifying information that the adoptee, parents whose consent was required under s. 63.062, or adoptive parents desire to include in the registry."...."The registry shall be open with respect to all adoptions in the state, regardless of when they took place. The registry shall be available for those persons choosing to enter information therein, but no one shall be required to do so." Fla. Stat. ch. 63, section 165 (2001)

"The registry shall be available for those persons choosing to enter information therein, but no one shall be required to do so." Fla. Stat. ch. 63, section 165 (2001)

Minor Adoptee -- "Consent to the release of this information may be made in the case of a minor adoptee by his or her adoptive parents or by the court after a showing of good cause." Fla. Stat. ch. 63, section 165 (1) (2001)

Must be done in writing -- "Subject to the provisions of subsection (4), identifying information regarding the birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptee may not be disclosed unless a birth parent, adoptive parent, or adoptee has authorized in writing the release of such information concerning himself or herself." Fla. Stat. ch. 63, section 162 (6) (2001)

To whom information may be released -- "A person who enters information in the registry shall be required to indicate clearly the persons to whom he or she is consenting to release this information, which persons shall be limited to the adoptee and the birth mother, father whose consent was required under s. 63.062, adoptive mother, adoptive father, birth siblings, and maternal and paternal birth grandparents of the adoptee." Fla. Stat. ch. 63, section 165 (1) (2001)

Proof of Identification -- "Anyone seeking to enter, change, or use information in the registry, or any agent of such person, shall present verification of his or her identity and, if applicable, his or her authority." Fla. Stat. ch. 63, section 165 (1) (2001)

Names of the Adoptive Parents -- "The court files, records, and papers in the adoption of a minor shall be indexed only in the name of the petitioner, and the name of the minor shall not be noted on any docket, index, or other record outside the court file, except that closed agency files may be cross-referenced in the original and adoptive names of the minor." Fla. Stat. ch. 63, section 162 (3) (2001)

Withdrawal / Change of consent to release information -- "At any time, any person may withdraw, limit, or otherwise restrict consent to release information by notifying the department in writing." Fla. Stat. ch. 63, section 165 (1) (2001)

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