LA Times Unveils Database of Boy Scouts’ Files; Top Oregon Court Order May Spark New Civil Cases

As an Oregon Supreme Court ruling earlier this year took effect on Thursday, making more than 1,200 'ineligible volunteer' files maintained by the Boy Scouts of America public, the Los Angeles Times unveiled a comprehensive database of these files and more. Dating back to material from the late 1940s, and as recently as January 2005, the database includes not only the files, from 1965 to 1985,...