Overview
- Iris Spranger said Berlin must quickly amend data-protection rules to allow an emergency register identifying home-care recipients so responders can reach them in crises.
- She plans to revise the Katastrophenschutzgesetz to grant the Interior and Sports administration binding powers over districts to order and audit disaster preparedness.
- Spranger compared the sought authority to the state election law and said district-level interventions would occur only when necessary.
- She called for exemptions in Berlin’s Freedom of Information law for security-relevant infrastructure data and urged federal adjustments to transparency obligations.
- The measures were outlined after talks with district mayors following the multi-day outage and constitute proposals seeking swift legislative action rather than changes already in force.