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Wolfgang Janisch, Karlsruhe
Much has been said about indefinite paragraphs and a lack of “clarity of norms” this Tuesday in Karlsruhe, but there was a moment when the thicket became apparent. Two judges of the Federal Constitutional Court tried to come to an understanding with the President of the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution about what actually stands for housing surveillance in the Bavarian Constitutional Protection Act. When is live monitoring, when is it recorded, how is the protection of privacy guaranteed? So three people who can read such regulations like hardly anyone else – but in a moment of perplexity they could not agree on what is really regulated in the paragraphs, which are complicated by cross-references to the point of illegibility.