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Law blocking release of birth certificates shelved

February 24, 2000 By admin

Iowans who research their “family tree” pressured Iowa lawmakers to think twice about new restrictions on the release of birth certifications — and won. A House Committee dumped the proposal which would have barred public access to the state’s birth records. Representative Gary Blodgett, a republican from Clear Lake, says he heard from plenty of genealogists.Blodgett says the records-clamp-down was proposed as one way to curb “identity theft.” He says you can get the information via the internet, so it probably wouldn’t have stopped identity theft anyway.

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