As the state legislature debated, and ultimately passed, on Tuesday evening a bill that would repeal a state law that for decades has kept secret police disciplinary records, a quickly circulated petition calling for the law’s repeal continued to grab signatures—more than 2,150 by 7:30 p.m. Tuesday—from law students, faculty members and administrators found at all 15 law schools across New York State.

The petition, the brainchild of an 3rd-year law student at St. John’s University School of Law, began circulating this past weekend. It gained momentum quickly, with signatures rolling in almost by the hour, said the law student, Jen Hopkins, in a phone interview late Tuesday afternoon.