The number of citizen complaints against parking offenders has increased enormously in Saxony. In the state capital of Dresden, 14,508 complaints were registered by citizens in the previous year, compared to just 5,146 four years earlier, as the city announced on request. The total number of reports fell from more than 211,000 to just over 147,200.
In 2023, the central fining authority in Leipzig received a total of 199,771 reports of administrative offenses for violations in stationary road traffic. Of these, 14,136 were so-called private reports. Reliable figures from previous years were not available.
In Chemnitz, the number had doubled in the past two years. Ad reporting portals such as "weg.li" are increasingly being used. The public order office takes a critical view of these portals. The actual purpose of a citizen report is "undermined" to a certain extent, as citizens are "literally encouraged to report other citizens or their neighbors for violations," it said. It is not uncommon for this to degenerate into a "flood of reports", with those filing reports walking entire streets and reporting violations. In principle, the prosecution of administrative offences is a sovereign task and is the responsibility of the employees of the responsible authority.
