People's Attorney Criticises Penalties for Parents

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The Vorarlberger Gemeinde Langen bei Bregenz punishes parents when they pick up their children too late from the care facility. Landesvolksanwalt Klaus Feurstein is not able to get along with this hard gait and finds a "big maladministration". For more than a year, in Langen parents have to pay a penalty if their children remain at home without excuse or are picked up late from the childcare service. Per quarter of an hour late, the municipality…