A New York City police union says the New York City Bar Association should rescind its report supporting the repeal of a state law preventing the release of records related to police misconduct, saying it is “tainted” because its authors were lawyers from organizations in litigation over the statute.

On Monday, the City Bar said it was joining with more than 30 groups aiming to rescind Civil Rights Law 50-a, which exempts police personnel files from disclosure under the state’s Freedom of Information Law and which, critics contend, has been applied more broadly than the Legislature intended under the measure.