State will re-issue birth certificates to adoptees who got redacted versions

Responding to charges that it was violating the state’s new adoption-records law, the Ohio Department of Health will re-issue original birth certificates to about three-dozen adoptees who received documents with too much information redacted. State Sen. Bill Beagle said on Tuesday that the department’s director, Richard Hodges, called to say that officials had “clarified the legislators’ intent” under the law, which unsealed the birth records of some 400,000 adoptee