Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell has filed a lawsuit against a Florida county, accusing the sheriff’s department of refusing to enforce trespassing laws on his private beachfront property.
The lawsuit, filed by Littrell’s company, BLB Beach Hut LLC, alleges that his family has been subjected to constant harassment on their Gulf Coast property in Walton County. According to the court documents, the company has posted “no trespassing” signs and placed tables and chairs to delineate the private property line, but these efforts have been unsuccessful.
The filing claims that “numerous trespassers have set out to antagonize, bully and harass the Littrell family by regularly, every day, trespassing… in open defiance of the law.” Littrell is seeking a writ of mandamus, a court order compelling the sheriff’s department to perform its official duties and remove trespassers.
The complaint states that despite Littrell hiring private security and submitting a formal Trespass Authorization Form, the sheriff’s department has repeatedly failed to act. It details several incidents, including one on May 4 where a deputy allegedly dismissed the complaint, remarking that a trespasser “‘doesn’t agree with private beaches'” and calling the family’s insistence on their rights “lunacy.”
On another occasion, a trespasser allegedly grabbed legal papers from a property manager’s hand and scattered them across the beach. After two calls for assistance went unanswered, the 911 operator “simply hung up” during the third call, the lawsuit claims. The filing also alleges that deputies were overheard on two separate occasions saying the sheriff was “proud of not issuing any citations for trespassing on the property.”
In a statement, Littrell explained that he purchased the home for a quiet family vacation spot. “We have been targeted by people that don’t normally frequent this beach or live in the area,” he said. “The really scary thing is we have provided to law enforcement all the things they asked… and they will not bother to do their duty to protect the homeowners.”
The Walton County Sheriff’s Office declined to comment on the pending litigation but said it “prides itself on handling every situation, call for service, or interaction with professionalism using a customer service approach.”
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