Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!faqserv From: ah241@freenet.carleton.ca (Rosemarie Ventura) Newsgroups: alt.adoption,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: alt.adoption FAQ 4: USA Open Records Lobby Orgs Supersedes: Followup-To: alt.adoption Date: 20 Aug 1996 15:55:15 GMT Organization: National Capital Freenet Lines: 298 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Expires: 18 Sep 1996 15:54:04 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bloom-picayune.mit.edu Summary: alt.adoption FAQ 4: USA Open Records Lobby Orgs X-Last-Updated: 1996/08/15 Originator: faqserv@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.adoption:61557 alt.answers:19960 news.answers:79805 Archive-name: genealogy/adoption/part4 Posting-Frequency: alt.adoption 2x/month, less frequently elsewhere. URL: http://www.webcom.com/kmc/adoption/faqs.html alt.adoption FAQ 4: USA Open Records Lobby Orgs *********************************************** 1. Advocacy and Reform Links ============================ Tenneesee Challenge ------------------- Read about the suit against the Tennessee Open Records law. Adoptees Resources Home Page ---------------------------- Available at this site: - sign up for the adoption related mailing list - full text of the proposed Uniform Adoption Act approved by the NCCUSL - connections to other adoption related sites and sites that may be of interest to searching adoptees Adoptees' Right To Know ----------------------- Text of WA state statutes relating to adoption. Comprehensive information on the Rost case coming soon. Information on the Krasniqi family. Sheag@oz.net Adoptees Rights --------------- Adoption Reform --------------- Each ftp site has subdirectories /search and /law/ca/cases. See file /pub/km/kmc/adoption/readme.txt for a full description, some files available in more than one version [Ascii, GNU, ZIP, HTML] Among the offerings at these sites: - In the /search subdirectory, forms for AOL and VSN. - Commentary on some proposed laws and recent studies. - In /cases subdirectory, information on some high profile cases. - UN Convention documents related to adoption. F.R.E.E. - Father's Rights and Equality Exchange ------------------------------------------------ Krasniqi Family Information --------------------------- Information on the efforts to help the Krasniqi family. Council on American-Islamic Relations cair1@ix.netcom.com Losses in Adoption ------------------ A listing of names of those who have sufferred the "second loss" of death before reunion. Also essays on adoption practices and reform. 2. Lobbying Organizations: ADOPTION REFORM COALITIONS ====================================================== STAC state contact [Stop the UAA CA] 1138 Aqua Vista St. #22 Studio City, CA 91602 818-980-7398 Colorado Adoption Dynamics 4301 E. Amherst #212 Denver CO 80222 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA DE] 20 Yeats Dr. New Castle DE 19720 302-325-2903 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA FL] 3100 Hunter Rd. Ft. Lauderdale FL 33331 954-384-8909 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA HI] 55 Niuiki Cir. Honolulu HI 96821 808-377-2345 STAC state contact {Stop the UAA ID] 1512 Shenandoah Boise ID 83712 voc: 208-384-1054 fax: 208-368-9885 ICARE PO Box 8393 Northfield, IL 60093 voc: 847-441-7581 fax: 847-446-1615 Informed Choice for Birthparents 444 E. 2150 North Rd Deland IL 61839 voc: 217-664-3342 fax: 217-664-3342 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA IL] 222 E. Pearson #602 Chicago IL 60611 312-642-3617 Indiana Adoption Coalition Candy Jones P.O. Box 1292 Kokomo, IN 46903-1292 voc: 317-453-4427 fax: 317-453-7418 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA IN] 6131 Maren Dr. Speedway IN 46224 317-291-7577 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA IA] 1049 36th St Des Moines IA 50311 515-274-5007 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA MD] 4622 Woodfield Rd Bethseda MD 20814 301-493-5721 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA MA] 20 Nagog Hill Rd. Littleton MA 01460-2212 508-962-6610 Liberal Ed. for Adoptive Families 23247 Lofton Ct. N. N.Scandia MN 55073 612-436-2215 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA MN] 6429 Mendelssohn Ln Edina MN 55343 612-938-5866 STAC state contact {Stop the UAA MO] 2606 Meadowview DR. Jefferson MO 65109 314-635-4575 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA NH] Box 447 Nasua NH 03060 603-889-4524 New Jersey Coalition for Openness in Adoption Legislative Office 29 Hill Street Morristown, NJ 07960 74354.1311@compuserve.com voc: 201-267-8698 fax: 201-267-8305 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA NJ] 306 Lenapi Dr. Franklin Lakes NJ 07417 201-891-4234 Adoptees Political Action Coalition P.O. Box 2807 Glenville, NY 12302 Membership $20/yr individual STAC state contact [Stop the UAA NY] 188 Vliet Bl. Cohes NY 12047-1816 518-238-2811 Adoption Coalition for Open Records Box 4153 Chapel Hill NC 27515 919-967-5010 AAC - Ohio fax: 216-261-1164 bln2@po.cwru.edu STAC state contact [Stop the UAA OH] 1148B Clarion Ave Holland OH 43528 419-865-3169 Oregon Adoptive Rights Association http://www.oara.org/ PA Coalition for Openess in Adoption 20 Runnemede V2 New Hope, PA 18938 215-862-2695 President: Abigail Lovett PA Adoption Legislation Coalition 24 North Merion Avenue #127 Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 voc: 610-631-2829 fax: 610-520-4552 Director: Nancy M. Newman, Esq. nanpatch@aol.com (reform relating to all adoption issues) STAC state contact [Stop the UAA PA] 8130 Hawthorne Dr Erie PA 16509 voc: 814-899-1493 fax: 814-866-2535 Tennessee Open Records Task Force (TENOR) voc: 415-461-3036 fax: 415-461-4686 Tennessee Coalition For Adoption Reform P.O. Box 41808 Nashville TN 37204 voc: 901-386-2197 (memphis office) fax: 901-385-5453 TxCARE Texas Coalition for Adoption Reform and Education STAC state contact [Stop the UAA TX] Adoption Triad Forum [newsletter] P.O.Box 832161 Richardson TX 75083-2161. voc: 214-699-8386 fax 214 699-1269 Subscriptions are $15 for one year (six issues) dhenders@uwspmail.uwsp.edu AliciaKLB@AOL.com STAC state contact [Stop the UAA VT] RR 2 Box 2280 Charlotte VT 05445 802-425-2478 K. Butterfield Box 267 Williston VT 05495 Coalition For Adoptive Reform P.O. Box 8461 Richmond, VA 23226-8461 STAC state Contact [Stop the UAA WV] 3500 Syaunton Ave SE #17 Charleston WV 25304 304-926-8344 STAC state contact [Stop the UAA WI] 4511 Woodridge Dr Eau Claire WI 54701 715-835-6695 ===================================================================== Faq 4 of the alt.adoption FAQ may be reproduced and redistributed provided it is given freely, not sold, and this notice remains intact. All rights reserved. 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