Statutes | Klamath Juvenile Ordinance Title 2 Chapter 15 ยง 15.62 | 2020
(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided for in this Ordinance or the Klamath Tribal Code, all records, reports, proceedings, documents, and orders filed, prepared for, or issued by the Juvenile Court in an adoption case are the confidential, permanent records ofthe Court and shall not be available for release to or inspection by any person provided that the Juvenile Court may authorize the release of information in such records for legitimate purposes ofthe Klamath Tribes.
(b) Information contained in adoption files and records may be released if a petition seeking release is filed with the Juvenile Court by the adopted person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older or by a person other than the adopted person who has petitioned for such release upon a showing of good cause. In either case, no infonnation shall be released until the Juvenile Court gives actual and confidential notice to the biological parent that the petition for release of information has been filed, and such parent consents in writing to the release of information. The Juvenile Court may waive the necessity of the biological parents consent if the parent, at the time of voluntary relinquishment of parental rights or involuntary termination of parental rights or anytime thereafter executes and files with the Juvenile Court a written consent authorizing the Juvenile Court to release information in the future, or if the biological parent cannot be located after a good faith attempt to locate him or her is made or if the Court determines that the need for information outweighs the biological parent s right to privacy.
(c) The Juvenile Court may refuse to divulge the biological parent s name but may release other information if the information is not likely to lead to the discovery of the parent s name.