NEW YORK, NY August 07, 2007 —A Federal judge has ordered the City to turn over some of the N-Y-P-D'S secret intelligence documents to lawyers representing people arrested during the 2OO4 Republican National Convention. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: Federal Judge James Francis rejected the City's arguments that any disclosure of documents would compromise the City's Post 9-11 intelligence program which it insisted had to remain clandestine to be effective. But the judge did affirm the City's right to keep a portion of the intell papers from the New York Civil Liberties Union. The group represents several people caught up in the mass arrests during the R-N-C. The City has ten days to decide if it wants to appeal.

A previous ruling forced the city to release several hundred pages of intelligence documents, chronicling police interest in a broad range of groups - from so-called "black block anarchists to satirical groups like Billionaires For Bush. Some 18-hundred people were arrested during the R-N-C. Many detained for well over 24 hours, in what protestors contend was actually illegal preventive detention. The City says it was just swamped by the volume of people. For WNYC I am Bob Hennelly