Non-Identifying
Information...
as defined in the Illinois Adoption Act
(750 ILCS 50/18.4) (from Ch. 40, par.
1522.4)
Sec. 18.4. (a) The agency,
Department of Children and Family Services, Court Supportive Services, Juvenile
Division of the Circuit Court, or the Probation Officers of the Circuit Court
involved in the adoption proceedings shall give in writing the following
non-identifying information, if known, to the adoptive parents not later than
the date of placement with the petitioning adoptive parents: (i) age of
biological parents; (ii) their race, religion and ethnic background; (iii)
general physical appearance of biological parents; (iv) their education,
occupation, hobbies, interests and talents; (v) existence of any other children
born to the biological parents; (vi) information about biological grandparents;
reason for emigrating into the United States, if applicable, and country of
origin; (vii) relationship between biological parents; (viii) detailed medical
and mental health histories of the child, the biological parents, and their
immediate relatives; and (ix) the actual date and place of birth of the adopted
person. However, no information provided under this subsection shall disclose
the name or last known address of the biological parents, grandparents, the
siblings of the biological parents, the adopted person, or any other relative of
the adopted person.
(b) Any
adoptee 18 years of age or over shall be given the information in subsection (a)
upon request.
(c) The
Illinois Adoption Registry shall release any non-identifying information listed
in (a) of this Section that appears on the certified copy of the original birth
certificate or the Certificate of Adoption to an adopted person, adoptive
parent, or legal guardian who is a registrant of the Illinois Adoption
Registry.
(d) The
Illinois Adoption Registry shall release the actual date and place of birth of
an adopted person who is 21 years of age or over to the birth parent if the
birth parent is a registrant of the Illinois Adoption Registry and has completed
a Medical Information Exchange Authorization. (e) The Illinois Adoption Registry shall release
information regarding the date the adoption was finalized and the county in
which the adoption was finalized to a certified confidential intermediary upon
submission of a court order. (f) In
cases where the Illinois Adoption Registry possesses information indicating that
an adopted person who is 21 years of age or over was adopted in a state other
than Illinois or a country other than the United States, the Illinois Adoption
Registry shall release the name of the state or country where the adoption was
finalized and, if available, the agency involved in the adoption to a registrant
of the Illinois Adoption Registry, provided the registrant is not the subject of
a Denial of Information Exchange and the registrant has completed a Medical
Information Exchange Authorization. (g) Any of the above available information for any adoption proceedings
completed before the effective date of this Act shall be supplied to the
adoptive parents or an adoptee 18 years of age or over upon
request.
(h) The
agency, Department of Children and Family Services, Court Supportive Services,
Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court, the Probation Officers of the Circuit
Court and any other governmental bodies having any of the above information
shall retain the file until the adoptee would have reached the age of 99
years.