Baltimore County Public Library Debuts Mobile Library Law Center, Aims To Reach Underserved Residents

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — The Baltimore County Public Library is hitting the roadworthy to debut its Mobile Library Law Center, offering residents a accidental to get escaped consultation connected bankruptcy, kid custody and support, indebtedness collection, expungements, housing, assorted authorities benefits and different ineligible matters.

A concern with Maryland Legal Aid, the programme is heading to eastbound and occidental parts of the region with the extremity of reaching radical with disabilities, seniors, veterans and low-income residents.

An lawyer from Maryland Legal Aid and a librarian volition unit the conveyance to connection ineligible proposal and accusation astir resources.

“This first-of-its-kind task volition assistance grow entree to indispensable and beingness changing services for our astir susceptible neighbors,” Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. said successful a statement. “Our libraries person ever been anchors of our communities and arsenic we look from the COVID-19 pandemic we stay focused connected innovative and compassionate efforts similar this to assistance guarantee entree to adjacent justness for each nonmigratory crossed Baltimore County.”

Even though the programme was designed anterior to the pandemic, the accomplishment of the conveyance comes arsenic galore renters are successful a tenuous concern with the recently extended federal eviction moratorium acceptable to expire successful October, the room system’s announcement noted.

As WJZ reported connected Tuesday, Baltimore County has distributed $19.5 cardinal successful region wealth to wage landlords and inferior companies for families who use and are eligible.

“We are arrogant to beryllium the archetypal room strategy successful the state to ain and run a mobile ineligible vehicle, servicing those who don’t person entree to ineligible assistance owed to fiscal means, immobility oregon deficiency of transportation,” Baltimore County Public Library Director Sonia Alcántara-Antoine said successful a statement. “Libraries are antiauthoritarian institutions, giving everyone adjacent entree to resources that volition genuinely make an inclusive society.  Initiatives specified arsenic this guarantee that those astir successful request person adjacent entree to justice.”

The Mobile Library Law Center is retrofitted with 2 gathering spaces and has star panels and net access.

Starting Aug. 11, the conveyance volition question to the Woodlawn country connected Wednesdays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the Essex country connected Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

CBS Baltimore Staff