In recent years, the assembly authority of the city of Göttingen has apparently regularly passed on personal data about assembly registrants to other bodies unlawfully. This is the result of the lawsuit brought by a 29-year-old woman from Göttingen, which was heard today before the Göttingen Administrative Court (case number: 1 A 274/15).
The registrant of three meetings in Göttingen in 2011 and 2012 only found out through an action for information obligation before the Göttingen Administrative Court (ref.: 1 A 250/15) that the meeting authority not only used her address and other contact details within the city administration and to the police passed it on without being asked, but also to the fire department and the Göttingen transport company (GöVB). The court-enforced data disclosure dated August 13, 2015 states: “ For purely expediency reasons, the public relations department or the responsible department head of the assembly authority, the fire department or the GöVB receive a copy of the confirmation from every confirmation from the assembly authority. However, the confirmations under assembly law contain the name, address and, if necessary, other contact information such as the e-mail address of the registrant in the head of the notice.
“ The Nds. The Assembly Act only provides for the possibility of passing on the registrants' data, which is particularly protected by the fundamental right of freedom of assembly and is already sensitive, to other parties within very narrow limits. In any case, pure expediency, which I don't recognize here anyway, doesn't play a role, " says lawyer Sven Adam, who represents the plaintiff in court.
In response to the action for declaratory judgment filed immediately after the data was provided, the legal department of the city of Göttingen had already admitted in the written procedure that it saw no legal basis for passing on the data to the fire department and the GöVB itself and recognized that the passing on was illegal. The only issue in the negotiation was the transfer of the plaintiff's email address to the Göttingen police station. In this regard, the plaintiff and the city agreed on a future change to the city's registration form, on which the passing on of the email address to the police can now be objected to. The administrative court will therefore no longer issue a judgment on the matter.
