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    Ballot proposal would open Denver adoption records

    From The Denver Post: The birth records of adoptions finalized in Denver would become available to the adoptees, once they are adults, under a proposed ballot initiative. Adoptees in Search — the Colorado Triad Connection will hold a “review and comment” session on Friday with City Council staff and the city attorney’s office about the [...]

    Sisters’ adoptive Oklahoma family reflects

    It has cost more than money for Ardee and Penny Tyler to give five Liberian sisters a better life in the United States. It’s cost them their reputations and their privacy, and scattered their family. Would they do it again? Yes, but they’d do it differently. “We would have gotten the right kind of help [...]

    ND couple charged with adoption fraud

    From the Associated Press: A Grand Forks couple is scheduled for trial June 8 on four federal counts of fraud involving a Texas adoption service and a local welfare agency.Amy Petrick, also known as Amy Galloway, and Jesse Hutchinson could face more than 60 years in prison if convicted. Authorities accuse the couple of being [...]

    Adoption activist arrested for illegal re-entry

    U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Robin Neal Whiteley on a felony illegal re-entry charge over the weekend. Court records filed in his case show 35-year-old Whiteley was caught near Hidalgo on February 18th. Whiteley’s case has been profiled in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and other media outlets as an illustration of a Catch-22 between immigration [...]