Will everyone soon be able to follow Moosburg's city council meetings via live stream?
If it goes to Philipp Fincke (FDP), the answer is yes.
But not everyone likes the idea.
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- It is a topic that he says has been on his mind for years. Because Philipp Fincke has been attending the city council meetings in Moosburg for a long time. And sometimes, as an interested listener, he would have liked to watch it from home on the couch, he admits. Now Fincke is an FDP city councilor and even a digitization advisor. Now he has submitted a request for livestream transmissions of city council and committee meetings. Motto: "Life is live".
The application, which is now on Mayor Josef Dollinger's desk, is not a snap shot, emphasized Fincke in a virtual press conference.
For many months he researched, checked the legal requirements with the district's data protection officer, started an anonymous survey with the city councils, asked other municipalities and gained their experience with live streams - and finally found someone in Ugur Yarac who could also handle the technical implementation would take over.
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Philipp Fincke (FDP) wants more citizens to participate in the meeting.
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According to Fincke, all data protection-relevant factors must of course be given - for example, the declaration of consent of all participants. Interesting, says the FDP man, were the responses from the city councils: Only eleven out of 24 replied, but only one of them was strictly against livestream transmissions. Most of them also advocated the broadcast of all public meetings, the opinion on the question of whether - and if so, how long - the meetings should be recorded was “more differentiated”. As Yarac explained, the live stream transmission was to be carried out by three remote-controlled robotic cameras in the center of the table circle, by a camera for the general view and a camera specifically for the mayor.The direction in the background would have to be done by three people - laptop, screen, mixing desk included. The costs? Depending on whether the city buys the equipment itself or rents it, it costs a few thousand euros.
Mayor "not the biggest fan of live streams"
If the application now "does not lie with the administration for too long," says Fincke, he sees a good chance that livestream transmissions will be made this year.
Because even if he knows "that the mayor is not the biggest fan of live streams", he thinks after everything he has heard from city council colleagues so far that his application has a good chance of being accepted.
A biker ride in fantastic spring weather came to an abrupt end on Sunday: A couple fell from their motorcycle near Moosburg and were injured because it was apparently overlooked by a BMW driver.
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