Lately, at least 50 grassroots groups have been launched with the purpose of adjusting sex-offender legal guidelines. Carpenter, who has managed to free eleven teenagers (all convicted of sexual offenses involving minors) from the registry, now serves on an expert advisory board for the Coalition for a Useful Registry, a grassroots group launched by two Michigan mothers. Instead, he was required to carry out 350 hours of group service - selecting up trash, mowing lawns - and to attend weekly counseling programs with convicted sex offenders and pedophiles. In 1994, Congress created the Jacob Wetterling Act, requiring states to determine registries listing convicted intercourse offenders. Sounds the same as 95% of the 'Sex Offenders' on the registry. The killer had found Elliott's identify on the registry and decided to go trying to find sex offenders before turning the gun on himself. Bushnell and the television version of Carrie (who had no last title within the column) have the same initials, a flourish emphasizing their connection.