R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-7-5.1: Contact preference form information.

Upon providing consent to an adoption, the biological parent(s) shall be informed that, consistent with § 23-3-15(g)(1), an adoptee may obtain a non-certified copy of his/her unaltered, original certificate of birth upon his/her eighteenth birthday, and that the birth parent is allowed and authorized to file a contact preference form with the division of vital records as provided in § 23-3-15(g)(2).