The Boy Scouts of America today will release more than 1,200 of their so-called “perversion files” by order of the Oregon Supreme Court.

The files, dating from 1970 and 1991, were created by scouting officials to detail allegations of child molestation. They supposedly show that hundreds of complaints were never reported to law enforcement and that, in fact, scouting officials actually helped molesters cover their tracks.

The Boy Scouts would have released these files in the century when they occurred but they just weren't prepared.