A major adoption advocacy organization has come out with a report suggesting states amend their laws so that all adults have access to their original birth information.

The report is called “For the Records: Restoring a Legal Right for Adult Adoptees” and you can find it here.

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute released it on the occasion of National Adoption Awareness Month. The institute describes it as the most comprehensive examination of one of the most controversial, emotional issues in the world of adoption.

Among those who support open access: the rap star, Darryl McDaniels, the DMC of Run-DMC, who learned when he was 35 that he had been adopted. Earlier this year, I wrote about him and a summer camp he had co-founded for children in foster care. He had discovered several years ago that he could not get his own records, and though he found his birth mother, a search he documented in “DMC: My Adoption Journey,” he did it without the records.

Here are the institute’s recommendations:

•Amend laws in every state to restore unrestricted access for adult adoptees to their original birth certificates—which, historically, had been their right nationwide.

•Within three years of enactment, revisit state laws that allow some adult adoptees to get access to their documents and not others.

•Conduct research to expand the understanding of the experiences of adopted persons, birthparents and adoptive parents in relation to the issue of access to records.

PHOTO: Darryl McDaniels, aka DMC, signs autographs for campers at Camp Felix in Putnam Valley in August of last year. McDaniels helps to sponsor the camp, which brings kids out of New York City for one or two weeks.( Frank Becerra Jr. / The Journal News )