Dogs know more about their pedigrees than adoptees do in Oregon.
Helen Hill, chief petitioner for Initiative 46, brought Max to a signature-gathering candle vigil at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Saturday evening. If passed, Initiative 46 would reverse a 1957 law that called for the permanent sealing of adoptees' birth certificates. Currently, people who were adopted as children can see only the amended document that was created at the time of the adoption. The originals are sealed away by the state and accessible only by court order. Hill says she rarely gets a refusal when she asks people to sign her petition.