--part1_a0.9d3f2d.25c9c49d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_a0.9d3f2d.25c9c49d_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yd04.mx.aol.com (rly-yd04.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.4]) by air-yd02.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 Feb 2000 03:15:36 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-yd04.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 Feb 2000 03:15:23 -0500 Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA26796; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 00:13:34 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 00:13:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Verna M. Wilson" <[email protected]> Old-To: "Arnold-L" <[email protected]>, "Ballard-L" <[email protected]>, "Boswell-L" <[email protected]>, "Calloway-L" <[email protected]>, "Hill-L" <[email protected]>, "Latham-L" <[email protected]>, "Lawless-L" <[email protected]>, "Longwell-L" <[email protected]>, "McVicker-L" <[email protected]>, "Milner-L" <[email protected]>, "Mink-L" <[email protected]>, "Phares-L" <[email protected]>, "Porter-L" <[email protected]>, "Sams-L" <[email protected]>, "Smith-L" <[email protected]>, "Turnbull-L" <[email protected]>, "Wilson-L" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 00:16:11 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Subject: [WILSON-L] Iowa Records Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/7454 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I received the following through my Ward-L: . I received the following response to my email...evidently it's just birth records that may be affected. Please note that I gave the wrong email address for Betty Soukup, Iowa State Senator whose response was almost instantaneous. It should not be Soupkup...... [email protected] (Soukup, Betty) Thank you for your interest in the proposed change in the procedure relating to copies of birth records. This initiative will be part of the Department of Public Health's legislative package for the 2000 session. I have spoken with officials in the Department of Public Health to hear their rationale for this change. They have indicated that under current law anyone can walk into a county courthouse and look at birth records. Their concern stems, not from wanting to restrict access to such records, but from a history of abuse by those seeking to establish false identities. I understand your concern, but there is a specific problem the Department is trying to address and the Legislature will have to evaluate the arguments. I am unsure how to address this issue, but the Department has indicated they are willing to discuss alternatives. Thank you again for sharing your views with me. Please feel free to contact me with any additional information or comments. Sincerely, Betty Soukup State Senator ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ --part1_a0.9d3f2d.25c9c49d_boundary--