Posting Bail Bonds in Baltimore County has changed

January 21, 2011

Once again, for better or for worse, the bail posting process has changed in Baltimore County. It was just a few days ago that a Towson Bail Bondsman could walk into the commissioners office and post bails for 3 different defendants at the same time. The process itself would take an average of 20 minutes or so depending on how busy the commissioners were at the time the bails were being posted.

Now, licensed bail agents of Baltimore County are allowed to post just one bail at a time. In addition to this, the bail paperwork must be faxed over to the jail for the defendant to sign authorizing his bail being posted. This part of the process alone can take over an hour easily. Before the next bail can be processed the bail agent must drive the release to the Baltimore County Detention Center so it can be hand delivered to a correctional officer there. From the time that the jail has the release it can take roughly another 3 hours for the defendant to be released from custody.

This changes things significantly for the bail posting industry of Baltimore County. For our clients, this could potentially delay the process of their loved ones significantly. Some Bail Bondsmen are going to be forced into making decisions as far as which bond is to be posted and which has to wait in line.

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There are many bail bondsmen in this state that are one-man-operations. If one of these so called bondsmen were to ever get more than one bail at a time it would inevitably hold somebody else from getting released quicker. One can be assured that Big Boyz Bail Bonds of Towson Maryland has a plethora of licensed bail agents that are willing to individually post your bail. If we have 5 bail bonds to post in Towson we will have 5 bail agents there to post them simultaneously.

Thanks to the head judge of Baltimore County, by implementing this change it is forcing Towson Bail Bondsmen to show their cards. Unlicensed bail bondsman will not be able to call in their bails to a general posting agent as efficiently anymore because they will consistently be behind 10-15 other bails ahead of them. As a result, their clients will grow tired of waiting 2 days for an individual's bail to be posted.

Even most licensed bail bondsmen don't want to spend money in gas driving to Towson or even wait the 2 hours it might take to post the bail. It was so much easier to just call the bail into someone else to take care of it; well not anymore! If you want to make sure you bail bond is posted in a timely fashion in Towson, call Big Boyz Bail Bonds now! We have licensed bail bondsmen on stand-by.