After 85 years, adopted Minnesotans regain access to their birth records In 1939, birth records for adopted children in the state went dark with an “act relating to vital statistics.” After decades of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A busy 2023 legislative session has ushered in 77 new Minnesota laws this, but it will take nearly a year before one landmark law change impacts adoptees and their birth parents. On July ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In the five months since Minnesota's new adoption law took effect, 2,800 Minnesotans have requested an original copy of their birth certificate, impacting countless others in the process ...

Penelope Needham advocated for the passage of the new law. A team of volunteers who joined her in this effort gave her a book illustrating its history. [MUSIC PLAYING] CATHY WURZER: Today, July the ...