PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The country’s leading technology trade association, which represents major multinationals including IBM, GE Aviation and Microsoft, is supporting the Boy Scouts of America’s effort to keep its so-called “perversion files” secret.
The years of files keep track of suspected pedophiles and others who violate the Boy Scouts’ rules in an effort to keep them from volunteering again.
The files were introduced in a trial last year, and news organizations, including The Associated Press, have sued to access them.
The technology association, called TechAmerica, wrote a brief saying it isn’t concerned with the contents of the files, but the effect of a ruling.
TechAmerica says a ruling to open the files to the public could endanger trade secrets.
