OAR 413-120-0910. Duty to Provide Information to Convention Case Registry

(1) Notwithstanding any other Department rule regarding the disclosure of information related to adoptions, the Department must provide all information to the U.S. State Department that is required for registry reporting. This includes, but is not limited to, information on each of the following actions for a Convention adoption, either incoming or outgoing, pending or finalized by the Department: (a) A child immigrating to the United States for the purpose of adoption; (b) A child emigrating from the United States for the purpose of adoption; (c) Number of disruptions; (d) Number of dissolutions; and (e) Average length of time to finalization. (2) The Department must maintain a database of all Oregon, licensed, private agency adoption placements, disruptions, finalizations, and dissolutions. This information must be reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children, Youth, and Families Children's Bureau.