Sheriff Sam Cogen ends predecessor’s billboards urging child support payments

Baltimore’s new Sheriff Sam Cogen has instructed an advertising company to remove his predecessor’s billboards telling city residents to pay child support, Cogen told The Baltimore Banner. Cogen unseated longtime Sheriff John Anderson in the Democratic primary in July. Anderson’s office paid for batches of the billboard advertisements throughout his three decades in office as sheriff. The $22,000 purchase of this batch of the billboard ads in May was the first such purchase in three years.