Laws and locations of Safe Haven Baby Boxes in the United States.
US Baby Box Map
KEY: Boxes • No Boxes(but law allows them)
An interactive Google Map is also available that shows the exact facilities and locations in states that have installed Safe Haven Baby Boxes, in addition to which boxes have led to infant abandonments. That map is available here.
List of States
Information, news, and general legislative updates are available on most states. See the SSHBB legislation page for details on current bills.
Key: # States with baby box laws | * States with proprietary Safe Haven Baby Boxes | † States with other types of boxes
Alabama #*
Alaska
Arizona †
Arkansas #*
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida *
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho#
Illinois
Indiana #* (2 pages)
Iowa #*
Kansas #
Kentucky #*
Louisiana #
Maine#
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi #*
Missouri #*
Montana #
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico*
New York
North Carolina *
North Dakota
Ohio #*
Oklahoma#*
Oregon
Pennsylvania #*
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee #*
Texas #
Utah
Vermont
Virginia#
Washington
West Virginia #*
Wisconsin #
Wyoming
Numbers
Statistics for states where there are installed baby boxes or drawers (e.g., Arizona). States are listed in order of number of installed boxes. For more details of cases, see SHBB Cases by State. “In Use” indicates the number of boxes that are actually in use in a state and have not been deactivated or removed, whether related to functional problems or regulatory issues that prompted the state to order the closure of a box.
State | Installed | In Use | Boxed Babies |
Indiana | 122 | 118 | 26 |
Kentucky | 33 | 33 | 3 |
Arkansas | 23 | 23 | 5 |
Ohio | 12 | 12 | 0 |
Arizona# | 6 | 4 | – |
New Mexico | 7 | 7 | 2 |
Alabama | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Tennessee | 5 | 5 | 1 |
North Carolina | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Oklahoma | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Florida | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Missouri | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Iowa | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Mississippi | 2 | 2 | 0 |
West Virginia | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Montana | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Iowa | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Texas | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Kansas | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown State | – | – | 1 |
Totals | 228 | 222 | 41* (43) |
#Outside of SHBB Inc network. It is not known if any infants have been boxed in Arizona.
Occasionally, when SHBB Inc announces a case, it skips a number with no explanation; in that case 43 , not 41, is the official number.