| The statutes in Illinois and Kansas allow the adoptive | | | | person, birth parents, or other birth relatives. |
| parents to receive medical and family information | | | | Identifying information includes the current name of |
| about the birth family. In addition, the adoptive | | | | the person, but usually also includes an address or |
| parents may request the department to contact the | | | | other contact information so that adopted persons |
| birth parents any time, postadoption, for additional | | | | and birth relatives can use the information to arrange |
| health information when there is a medical need. | | | | personal contact with one another. The statutes in |
| Identifying Information | | | | nearly all States permit the release of identifying |
| Identifying information is considered to be data that | | | | information when the person whose information is |
| may lead to the positive identification of an adopted | | | | sought has consented to the release. |