Overview

• The justice ministry’s draft would let family courts mandate GPS ankle monitors in high‑risk cases to enforce restraining and contact orders.
• Orders would run for six months with possible three‑month extensions, and refusal or tampering could be punished by up to three years in prison or a fine.
• The Spanish‑style system tracks both parties, triggers graduated proximity alerts, offers an optional receiver with a panic button for victims, and routes alarms to HZD or the GÜL for assessment and police dispatch.
• Hesse reports nine cases using the new technology through August 25 with no recorded reoffences, with alerts handled through immediate contact by the monitoring office.
• The ministry projects about 160 uses per year versus 256,000 recorded domestic‑violence incidents in 2023, and support organizations urge investment in shelters, trained staff and Spain‑level case monitoring.