FALL RIVER — The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office can no longer withhold the identities of police officers it is investigating in cases of possible police misconduct on privacy grounds, according to a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. 

The 37-page ruling was released Friday over an appeal brought by Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn III after Fall River resident Eric Mack filed a public records lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court against Quinn's office and won. 

A Superior Court judge in March 2023 ordered Quinn to release records from an investigation after the shooting death of Mack’s brother, 30-year-old Black man Anthony Harden, which involved two Fall River officers.

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