Ohio unseals adoption records

Brad Watts (sitting, centered) is pictured with members of the biological family he tracked down in 2015 after Ohio legislators unsealed 32 years of adoption records.

My latest story for Cincinnati.com highlights the real-life impact that an Ohio law change that unseals adoption records is having on families nationwide. 

Through the story, I got to meet Brad Watts, who was put up for adoption in 1975. For four decades, he wondered about his biological family, and, thanks to the law change, in 2015 he got to meet his mother, his father and a whole slew of siblings he never dreamed he'd have. Here's the story: ​http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/01/07/unsealed-adoption-records-reunite-families/77383544_/. 

The story was picked up and cited by People magazine as well.

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