Within a week of launching the petition for Jesse’s Law, more than 6,300 people had signed their names. Every notification felt like someone saying, “This is wrong, and it should change.” For a family that had spent two years feeling unheard, that response mattered.
Those early signatures came from friends, neighbors, and complete strangers across Massachusetts and beyond. People wrote comments about their own losses, their fears for their kids, and the times they had watched others look away. It reminded us that this isn’t just our story, even though it started with Jesse.
Seeing that number climb told us we were not alone. It also gave us something concrete to bring to legislators: proof that people want a basic duty to call 911 when a life is at risk.