An attorney from the New York City Law Department asked a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday to lift an earlier order delaying the planned release of thousands of internal law enforcement disciplinary records following the repeal last year of the state’s police secrecy law.

Elina Druker, senior counsel for the Law Department, said the city should be able to move forward with the disclosure, after a Manhattan federal judge last summer denied a police union’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking the documents’ release.