Regulation .01 Purpose.
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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.