Federal Judge Katherine Polk Failla lifted a temporary restraining order barring the Civilian Complaint Review Board – the NYPD’s civilian watchdog agency – from releasing hundreds of thousands of officer complaints dating back to the mid-80s.

The ruling comes a day after the American Civil Liberties Union won an appeals court’s consent to publish the records, according to the New York Daily News.

The Legal Aid Society welcomed the ruling saying the data will benefit the mostly Black and Latinx New Yorkers that have suffered from what they call “the culture of impunity” and help their attorneys defend clients in court.