Creating such a vacuum as closed records does for many people is a direct violation of the same rights which give rise to privacy. The right to know or suppress is equivalent with regard to personal information. Therefore both must be respected. It is a presumption of guilt upon adoptees that they are to be barred from possessing their birth information or records of proceedings at which they are concerned. These are principles which closed records violate.
Closure be no broader than necessary.
Consideration of reasonable alternatives. Findings adequate to support the closure. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. Excessive fees are extracted from adoptees even for abridged personal information. Search professionals have a captive market when the searcher is not allowed to conduct their own search.