That may all be true, but it's also true that no law or regulation prohibits someone from having the state release a certified *paper* copy of either their Certificate of Live Birth or their Certification of Live Birth to interested third parties.
It would shut us all up, for about $12. So why has he chosen not to do so?
Computer images released to friendly media types don't exactly indicate "transparency".
Never do what your enemy desires, for this reason alone, that he desires it - Napoleon.