AMERICANS
FOR
OPEN
RECORDS
(AmFOR)
Mega-site supporting Americans' "right to know" for personal and national security:
- Our BIRTH and ADOPTION RECORDS (Wrongly Withheld)
- Our PUBLICLY HELD RECORDS (Wrongly Withheld)
- Our PRIVATELY HELD RECORDS (Wrongly Withheld)
- Our GOVERNMENT'S CERTAIN RECORDS (Wrongly Classified)
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Your DONATION helps fund AmFOR's FREE public info/self-help website
(navigate them via the Links at Right of each page on this site)
INTRODUCTION
Who We Are, What We Do, What We Believe
WHO WE ARE
AmFOR is an international voluntary network of citizens reclaiming "our right to know" via our dwindling access to billions of records wrongly withheld from us and kept secret without our permission under alleged "confidentiality" and "privacy" laws, especially records in which we are named, and to certain other records which must be accessible to the public in the public interest. We are also reclaiming our right to correct any misinformation or falsifications in such records.
What if one day you could freely access and obtain a copy of your own birth certificate, medical records, DMV records of a vehicle's ownership, as well as information on what our government is doing with our money.... but the next day it was all withheld from you to allegedly "protect" your privacy (or someone else's) without your (or their) permission... yet certain agencies and individuals could freely exchange your information and even sell it on Internet(also without your permission)? What if, based on new laws, our government no longer had to be accountable to us? That's exactly what has been occurring via many "State Privacy Laws," "Identity Theft" laws, and "National Security Acts" (such as the Patriot Act).
AmFOR was originally founded in 1989 by Lori Carangelo as a national organization by and for adoption affected citizens only, but also non-adopted citizens began to support our original, related and subsequent causes, so AmFOR expanded its focus and efforts with this mega-site to provide FREE research and assistance via our (still) free speech!
AmFOR incorporated in 1996 as a non-profit tax-exempt California corporation, funded at the time entirely by book sales and royalties. Today, AmFOR's expanded emphasis and projects are funded entirely as a philanthropic project of its founder.
WHAT WE DO
AmFOR has, over the years, lobbied, protested, petitioned, sued and had our books and editorials published, to OPEN UP our Wrongly Sealed Birth and Adoption Records (degree of disclosure depends on state), our Publicly Held Records that are wrongly withheld from our access, our Privately Held Records that are wrongly withheld from our access, and certain of our government's Wrongly Classified Records not sanctioned by Congress (representatives of the People).
AmFOR invites YOU to join and support these efforts in YOUR state. NO Membership Fee required. YOUR DONATION will help fund AmFOR's FREE services, including this FREE public information/self-help website. This website will help you, FREE of charge to find who and what you're seeking, and to reclaim what's rightfully yours! Use the Links at the RIGHT to navigate AmFOR's FREE "How To" Self-Help Information, FREE Statistical Data and Research with Sources, FREE Helpful Resources, FREE Registries, FREE Posting of your Comments on our Petition, and well-reviewed Full-Length Non-fiction E-Books that previously were only available in hardcopy editions through book publishers and booksellers for a price are now TOTALLY FREE to Browse, Search or Download.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe all American citizens have the "right to know" what's in our records and to access and obtain what's ours, and to correct any misinformation. AmFOR supports public access to such records and believes that denying public access threatens not only our personal security but also National Security and our Democracy!
"It's hard to hear among the gunfire....But even the softest whisper can be heard when it tells the truth." from Sydney Pollack movie, "The Interpreter" (2005)
"Adopt" a Soldier and send letters and packages:
http://mysoldier.com/about.htm
For stories about Adoptees killed in Iraq and Past Wars
Links to protest continued deployment and more, go to:
"Adoptees' War Memorial" at
http://AmFOR.net/war
