that the police were obligated to release the files but were not required to release those mentioning Peter Reilly. Awards and honors Catherine Roraback Awards (NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut) Since 1980, NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut has given out the Catherine Roraback Award, an award given to individuals and organizations that have demonstrated leadership, courage and activism in the struggle to protect privacy rights, the legal right to obtain an abortion, and access to reproductive health for all women. The award has been given to numerous politicians, activists, healthcare workers, and others involved in the struggle for reproductive freedom. Other honors and awards Throughout her career, Catherine Roraback participated in many historically significant groups. She co-founded the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to secure the rights of citizens as listed in the Bill of Rights. Roraback also served as president of the National Lawyers Guild from 1973 to 1985, an association of lawyers that describes itself as "defending human rights". She served on the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund and was a board member emeritus of the American Civil Liberties Union. Roraback received numerous awards for her legal and humanitarian actions throughout her life. Among these are induction into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, an esteem also received by Katharine Hepburn and Helen Keller. She is also the namesake of the Catherine Roraback Law Scholarship Fund of the Litchfield County Bar Association. Later life After trying many cases throughout the civil rights movement, Catherine Roraback continued her practice in Canaan, Connecticut, continuing to defend civil rights. Her practice also served to help in smaller affairs including criminal defenses and divorces. She participated in Planned Parenthood as a legal counsel long after Griswold, and continued to defend, as she called them, the "dissenters and the dispossessed". Roraback died at Noble Horizons living facility in Salisbury, Connecticut, of undisclosed causes on October 17, 2007. References Further reading External links http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/nyregion/20roraback.html?_r=1 http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/obituaries/entry/catherine_roraback_knew_who_was_watching/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110716194309/http://www.tcextra.com/news/publish/obituaries/Imagine_Catherine_Roraback_s_emotions/342900.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20110724223054/http://www.acluct.org/downloads/CivilLibertiesNewsJan08.pdf http://articles.courant.com/2007-10-21/news/0710210154_1_griswold-case-yale-law-school-peter-reilly https://web.archive.org/web/20101202134931/http://yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/namethosecolleges.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110724223054/http://www.acluct.org/downloads/CivilLibertiesNewsJan08.pdf Catherine G. Roraback Papers at Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, Law Archives, Emory University 1920 births 2007 deaths American civil rights lawyers People from Brooklyn Connecticut lawyers Mount Holyoke College alumni Yale Law School alumni Activists from New York (state) 20th-century American women lawyers 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American women