KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Jan. 1, 2018, a new law takes effect in Missouri that will allow people who were adopted in Missouri to get a copy of their original birth certificate. Those original birth ...

Sen. Mike Cierpiot, R-Lee's Summit, has a bill to bar transgender Missourians from changing the sex on their birth certificates, (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Photo Credit: Annelise ...

A birth certificate will be needed in most cases to apply for a state ID. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, and Bureau of Vital Records can provide one fee-exempt copy of a ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill into law Friday empowering children with a deceased parent who was adopted to see that deceased parent's original birth certificate. Missouri State Rep.

ST. LOUIS — Adoptees over the age of 18 and born in Missouri now have access to something they've never had before - their original birth certificate. The Missouri Adoptee Rights Act went into ...

JEFFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said the state no longer will make children in foster care pay a $15 fee to get copies of their birth certificates.

The case may decide if the Missouri Human Rights Act covers legal sex, such as when a birth certificate is amended after gender transition, or is limited to sex as assigned at birth. The MHRA ...

“I could have this and I wouldn’t have known that had I not had my birth certificate,” she recently told The Associated Press. Missouri is one of more than 31 states that restrict adoptees ...

Cancel anytime. Supporters and family members gather to shoot a group picture of adoptees who requested copies of their birth certificates at the Missouri Vital Records office in Jefferson City on ...

The Missouri Adoptee Rights movement has lobbied for years for more lenient adoption privacy laws. Phillips said the bill was passed after a passage allowing birth-certificate access to ...