Key legal question
Whether the municipality violated its duty to keep records of decisive interviews in the naturalization procedure.
Extracted holding
Yes. At least the essential content of the interviews had to be recorded; the absence of proper minutes breached the record-keeping duty and thus the right to be heard.
Extracted reasoning
The interviews were decisive for the naturalization assessment and were relied on in the refusal. Without written records, the parties could not effectively exercise access to the file and challenge the factual basis; the defect was not cured on appeal.