Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell filed court docket paperwork accusing a Florida sheriff’s workplace of failing to take away beachgoers who trespass on his oceanfront property and is asking a choose to intervene.
Littrell’s firm, BLB Seaside Hut LLC, sued for a writ of mandamus, which is a authorized request that asks a choose to order the Walton County Sheriff’s Workplace to take motion.
In keeping with the petition filed final month in a Walton County court docket, Littrell has tried to discourage folks from getting into by inserting “no trespassing” indicators and marking the property line with chairs, small tables, and umbrellas.
However beachgoers proceed to “antagonize, bully, and harass the Littrell household by recurrently, each day, trespassing” on his property, the petition said.
Below Florida regulation, any sand on a seaside beneath the excessive tide water mark is taken into account public, The Related Press reported. Householders with oceanfront property personal the sand right down to the common high-water line, in accordance with AP, though some counties have handed native ordinances that enable the general public to have entry to your complete seaside.
In keeping with property data, the “All people” singer bought his residence alongside the Santa Rosa Seaside in 2023 for $3.8 million, The Related Press reported.
Littrell’s petition described situations when trespassers have allegedly broken his property after being requested by the corporate’s employees to depart. The sheriff’s workplace was known as to the property on quite a few events due to trespassers, however has “refused to return to the topic property to implement the regulation and take away the trespassers, to cost the trespassers, or to take any motion, in any respect, thereby refusing to do their obligation,” the submitting stated.
The household was compelled to rent personal safety, in accordance with the petition.
“All Brian and his household need is what anybody would need, the appropriate to peaceable enjoyment of their property,” his legal professional, Peter Ticktin, stated in an announcement. “The trespassers who’re occupying his yard at will are nearly inspired by a feckless sheriff’s division who is just not prepared to observe the regulation and inform the trespassers to maneuver off of the personal property, the seaside, actually, their yard.”
“We’re not trying to hurt anybody. We simply need our property again,” he stated. “We’re not insisting that the sheriff lay legal fees towards anybody, except, in fact, they refuse to obey the orders of the sheriff.”
The sheriff’s workplace stated it can not touch upon pending litigation.
“The Walton County Sheriff’s Workplace prides itself on dealing with each state of affairs, name for service, or interplay with professionalism utilizing a customer support method,” a spokesperson stated. “This has all the time been our philosophy and can stay so shifting ahead.”
