Landlords Used Illegitimate Psychiatric Evaluation Order As Intimidation

Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

In 2024 and 2025 I rented a room in the primary home of a landlady who was also a relative. Her husband, a former police officer in the same city, also lived there. The entire duration of my residence there, she was very hostile, triggered easily to anger, manipulative, and mentally and verbally abusive. On at least two occasions, she was physically violent toward me. He openly acted similarly toward the end, with one incident of directly physically assaulting me, and another where he physically threatened me.

There are so many incidents I could mention here, but their actions immediately escalated in May 2025 when they posted a notice to vacate on the door of my rented room. That same weekend—Memorial Day weekend—they shut off the power to the floor I was on. He eventually admitted to deliberately turning off the power. I called the police, and the officer who spoke with the male relative inside while I waited at the curb came back to tell me that it was apparently just "weird timing" and the wiring had shown signs of needing an assessment/repair, so the power to the upstairs had been shut off in caution. Power returned early next morning.

Within that first week, they also had a psych evaulation petition filed, and I was escorted to the emergency department by police officers, and released the same evening. At the hospital, I asked the officers on what grounds the evaluation had been ordered. One of the officers read off the concerns the landlady had named, and also held up the document for me to see. The troubling behavior included walking too loudly and having used profanity.

My question is actually about the second of the two psych evaluations following the notice to vacate.

This one occurred in August 2025 when I was still living there and still searching for alternate housing. Again, I was let go within a few hours. But this time, when the social worker I had interacted with the first time came into the room, he immediately told me he was letting me go. He said, "First of all, it's not even signed," and added that the officers who had brought me there had spoken to him about the order not being legitimate. And when I went onto the patient portal a few days later to view the documents from the visit, he had typed "INVALID" in capital letters in the summary.

I finally escaped that house several months ago—specifically timing my leave for when both were out of the house—and have avoided the surrounding neighborhood and sites I know they frequented; have even sometimes planned my trips based on her work schedule to further reduce possible run-ins; have completely avoided contact with them and all other relatives beyond one cousin. I have no motivation remaining to take any action. I don't want to stir up any of that mess.

But I am curious: what legal actions exist or existed concerning the forged or incomplete emergency petition?