Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen

Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen
Agency overview
Formed	November 3, 1992
Headquarters	Dresden
Employees	187 (2014)
Minister responsible	Markus Ulbig, Minister of the Interior;
Agency executive	Gordian Meyer-Plath, President;
Parent department	Saxon Ministry of State for the Interior
Key document	Sächsisches Verfassungssschutzgesetz;
Website	www.lfv.sachsen.de

The Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen (State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Saxony) is the domestic intelligence agency of the German federal state of Saxony. Its main function is the observation and surveillance of anti-constitutional activities in the German state of Saxony.

The office is subordinate to the Saxon Ministry of State for the Interior. It cooperates with the federal agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, and the 15 other state agencies. With currently 187 employees, the office is based in Dresden.^[1] Its work is governed by a state law.

The office monitors extremist activities by the far-right, the far-left, as well as "foreigner extremism" including Islamism, and espionage activities.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Aufgaben, Zuständigkeit". Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen (in German). Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.