Overview

• Family courts would be empowered to order GPS tracking in defined high‑risk situations to enforce restraining orders with real‑time warnings to victims and police.
• The draft adds mandatory anti‑violence trainings for offenders, higher penalties for breaches of protection orders, access to the weapons register, and potential limits on custody or visitation.
• Implementation would rely on the Länder’s central monitoring unit GÜL and automated geofencing, building on state pilots in places like Hessen, Sachsen and Nordrhein‑Westfalen.
• Nationwide, 129 people are currently monitored with electronic tags, and police union leaders anticipate several hundred additional cases if the proposal becomes law.
• Advocates such as Terres des Femmes and Berlin’s justice senator support the move, as the ministry cites Spain’s model and BKA data showing nearly 266,000 domestic‑violence victims in 2023.