Md. Code Regs. 07.02.13.01

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 26, December 27, 2024

Section 07.02.13.01 - Purpose

The purpose of this chapter is to:

A. Allow adult adoptees and eligible birth family members to:

(1) Exchange identifying information between all eligible consenting persons who register and are matched through the Maryland Mutual Consent Voluntary Adoption Registry;

(2) Search for and exchange identifying and nonidentifying information between adult adoptees and their birth parents who consent to the services of the Search, Contact, and Reunion Services Program; and

(3) Maintain confidentiality and anonymity if other birth family members search for the adult adoptees and eligible birth family members, and they do not desire contact;

B. Allow adult adoptees and birth parents to file disclosure vetoes to protect their confidentiality;

C. Allow a local department to contact a sibling of a minor in out-of-home placement in order to develop a placement resource or facilitate a family connection, if the sibling was adopted through a local department; and

D. Allow a director of a local department or designee to contact relatives of a minor in out-of-home placement who was adopted through a local department for the purposes of developing a placement resource or to facilitate a family connection if the local department has determined that reunification with the minor's adoptive parent is not in the minor's best interest.

Md. Code Regs. 07.02.13.01

Regulation .01 License for Child Placement Agencies, repealed effective January 8, 2001 (27:26 Md. R. 2357)
Regulations .01 Post-Adoption Reunion Services, adopted effective June 24, 2002 (29:12 Md. R. 926)
Regulation .01 amended effective January 9, 2012 (38:27 Md. R. 1763)
Regulation .01 amended effective 42:16 Md. R. 1054, eff.8/17/2015