Okla. Stat. tit. 10, § 10-7505-1.1

Release - Exceptions - Misdemeanor.

A. Unless otherwise ordered by the district court exercising

jurisdiction over the adoption proceeding, all hearings held in

proceedings pursuant to the Oklahoma Adoption Code shall be

confidential and shall be held in closed court without admittance of

any person other than interested parties and their counsel.

B. All papers, records, and books of proceedings in adoption

cases and any papers, records, and books relating to such

proceedings:

1. Shall be kept as a permanent record of the court and

maintained in a separate file by the court clerk; and

2. Shall be confidential and shall not be open to inspection or

copy except as authorized in Sections 7504-1.2, 7505-3.2, 7505-6.6,

7508-1.2 and 7508-1.3 of this title or upon order of a court of

record for good cause shown.

C. Upon application and notice to the person or agency in whose

possession the records being sought are held, and for good cause

being shown, any court of record may, by written order reciting its

findings, permit the necessary information to be released, or may

restrict the purposes for which it shall be used. The findings

shall include the reasons the information being sought cannot be

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obtained through the methods authorized by Sections 7504-1.2, 7505-

3.2, 7505-6.6, 7508-1.2 and 7508-1.3 of this title.

D. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit persons

employed by the court, the Department of Human Services, a child-

placing agency, an attorney participating or assisting in a direct

placement adoption or any physician, minister or other person or

entity assisting or participating in an adoption from providing

partial or complete identifying information between a biological

parent and prospective adoptive or adoptive parent if a biological

parent and a prospective adoptive or adoptive parent mutually agree

to share specific identifying information and each gives written,

signed notice of their agreement to the court, the Department of

Human Services, the child-placing agency, or any attorney

participating or assisting in the direct placement adoption pursuant

to the Oklahoma Adoption Code.

E. Any person in charge of adoption records or having access to

adoption records or information who discloses any information,

including, but not limited to, all records and reports relevant to

the case and any records and reports of examination of the minor's

parent or other custodian pertaining to an adoption proceeding,

contrary to the provisions of this section, upon conviction thereof,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.