Overview
- The CDU–SPD coalition proposed requiring clinics to notify police and local authorities when involuntarily treated patients are discharged and still judged potentially dangerous without further care.
- After a 3 September Landtag hearing brought broad objections from clinicians, patient groups, municipal bodies and the police union, the government on 4 September said it will revise the draft and abandon a quick vote.
- Hessian Data Protection Commissioner Alexander Roßnagel warned the planned data transfer would deeply intrude on fundamental rights, while hospital and municipal groups cited missing criteria, safeguards and appeal rights.
- The police union questioned how officers would use the data and whether risk assessments are feasible in routine practice, and it urged expansion of community and social psychiatric services.
- SPD health spokesperson Daniela Sommer called the uproar a misunderstanding, rejected claims of police registers and pledged further consultation, as practitioners press for investment in crisis support over surveillance measures.