By late July 2025, the petition for Jesse’s Law was closing in on 7,000 signatures. The early surge hadn’t faded. People were still clicking, still sharing, still talking about Jesse and about the simple expectation that we call for help when someone is in real danger.
We watched as the petition link moved into new communities and new states. Teachers, parents, EMTs, students, and survivors of other tragedies added their names. Many said they had assumed this kind of duty was already the law.
That steady growth told us this wasn’t a one‑week wave of sympathy. It was a sustained response. It gave us the courage to keep asking for more—from the public and from the people who write the laws.