Email from another bereaved parent

This is exactly why Jools’ Law should exist: To automatically preserve a child’s online and social media data when they die.

The message below is from another bereaved parent. I have removed their child’s name. Another bereaved parent, another child, and another unnecessary battle for answers.

Months of fighting. 

Repeatedly pointing out the law. 

Educating a coroner on their own powers. 

Being told nothing could be done because the platforms are based outside the UK. I even had to ask the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office to step in.

Only after relentless pressure did the coroner finally agree to ask for a list of the child’s social media accounts to take to Ofcom.

No parent should have to do this.

No bereaved family should have to become a legal expert while in deep grief.

And no coroner should be unclear about the powers available to them.

Yet this is happening again and again.

I want data to be preserved automatically when a child dies,

No delays.

No begging.

No parents forced to fight while in shock and grief.

No evidence is lost while authorities work out what they can and cannot do.

This has to change. #Joolslaw