Baltimore County Won't Evict You Over the Holidays
"I'm not putting somebody out over the holidays." - Sheriff's deputy.
Many in Baltimore County have thoughts about other residents who are less fortunate during the holiday season, and that also includes the officials whose job it is to evict renters and foreclosed homeowners. Nobody will lose their home over the holidays. The Baltimore County Sheriff's Office, which evicts homeowners who have been foreclosed by mortgage-holders, stopped evictions on Dec. 16 and won't resume until Jan. 3 of next year. "It isn't a law or anything like that, just something that we've done for the last five or six years," explained Sheriff R. Jay Fisher. "This is something we do on our own as a courtesy." "I'm not putting somebody out over the holidays," said one deputy who asked not to be identified. A similar policy is …
