Adoption records of Indian child to be provided to Indian child’s tribe or United States Secretary of the Interior upon request.

NRS

127.1865

Adoption records of Indian child to be provided to Indian child’s tribe or United States Secretary of the Interior upon request.

1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if an Indian child’s tribe or the United States Secretary of the Interior requests access to the adoption records of an Indian child, the court must make the records available not later than 14 days following the date of the request.

2. The records made available under subsection 1 must, at a minimum, include the petition, all substantive orders entered in the adoption proceeding, the complete record of the placement finding and, if the placement departs from the placement preferences under NRS 125E.350 , detailed documentation of the efforts to comply with the placement preferences.

(Added to NRS by 2023, 2250 )