About 2,000 children are placed for adoption in Minnesota every year. When a new law takes effect next year, the Minnesota Department of Health says more than 85% of the birth records it has on file ...

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 ...

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 ...