So now: Although discussed and rejected several times, there should be a live stream from the Dachau city council at least once a year.
The corona crisis has led to a rethink, some councils justified their change of opinion.
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Anyone who thinks that a new episode of “Dahoam is dahoam” will soon be filmed in the new conference room of the Dachau town hall is very wrong.
The cameras that will be set up there are to film the events during a city council meeting and broadcast them live on the Internet.
The agenda of the meeting is more or less the script and the 40 councilors and the administrative staff make up the lay ensemble.
Will the result be a two-hour, nerve-shredding thriller or a short tragedy with no happy ending?
Nobody knows.
One thing is certain: audience ratings like “Dahoam is dahoam” should not be delivered by the Rathaus production.
But that's not what the supporters of the livestream was about.
Applicant Wolfgang Moll (We), who had already raised the issue in spring and formulated it again as an application at the end of October, is more about being able to provide citizens with “fundamentally improved information” and giving them the opportunity to “get involved to be able to make a neutral and impartial picture “of the work of the city council and its decision-making processes.
In addition, in view of the worsening corona situation, it makes sense to avoid any rush of visitors in the town hall.
The live stream is "a new way of communication".
But since he failed with this request in the spring, he restricted his application: If not regularly, such a live stream should be made possible at least once a year, preferably always during the December meeting, at which the budget is traditionally decided and the parliamentary group spokespersons hold their annual closing speeches.
Only those who consent will be accepted
Josef Hermann, head of the main office in the Dachau town hall, on the other hand, repeated the arguments against the livestream that were mentioned in the spring and in 2014.
According to this, only those people are allowed to be filmed in words and pictures who have explicitly consented to the transmission beforehand.
That means: All city councils as well as the town hall employees and any external experts invited to the meeting - architects, for example - would have to declare their consent to the live stream in writing.
According to the law, this consent must be given “without psychological pressure and with sufficient time to consider”.
In addition, it can be revoked at any time and without giving reasons.
When this consent was last requested, not all parties involved consented to the transfer.
According to the state commissioner for data protection, the establishment of a media library is not legally permitted anyway.
Jürgen Seidl (FDP) stressed that colleagues who did not want to be shown in the live stream could be "muted".
In general, the “speaking people” would only be zoomed in anyway.
He considered the technical effort to be “manageable”, which is why he did not want to “reject or slow down Moll's application”.
Gertrud Schmidt-Podolsky (CSU), formerly a critic of the broadcast, admitted to having "rethought because of Corona".
In her opinion, the meetings were "of great interest".
Michael Eisenmann (Alliance for Dachau), however, pointed out that if individual meeting participants were muted, the whole discussion would be “taken to absurdity”.
Heike Drexler (SPD) also found, given the difficult budget situation in the city, that the issue of transparency is important.
"But it's not the time to do it right now."
In the end, however, there was a clear majority in favor of the transfer.
The city administration will now examine the technical feasibility, then determine the costs and ask the administrative staff and city councils for their consent to the live stream.
The last word on the matter is likely to be spoken in a completely different place: Since the transfer is definitely not a compulsory task of the municipality, the legal supervision in the district office is unlikely to release the funds for it.