Regional News

Supreme Court Ruling Could Affect Boy Scouts

The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that records from the Boy Scouts from the last 20 years need to be made public.  20,000 pages of the so-called “Perversion Files” compiled by the Boy Scouts on suspected child abusers over a period of 20 years should be released.  The Oregon Supreme Court denied an attempt by the Boy Scouts of America to keep the records gathered from 1965-1985 sealed.  The files were used as evidence in a lawsuit against the Scouts in a case that ended in 2010 with a jury ruling that the organization had failed to protect a man who was molested by an assistant scoutmaster in the early 1980s.  A Multnomah County judge ordered the files to be opened to the public, with redactions. 

On Air Now

KBND Morning News
KBND Morning News
6:00am - 9:00am
KBND Morning News

FlashAlert

KBND ON FACEBOOK

News Disclaimers