About SNITCH: Florida Code Complaints Filed in Our Name
Since SB 60, every Florida code complaint needs a name and address on the public record. SNITCH files as the complainant of record, so that name is ours.
Our Founder
Chaz Stevens founded SNITCH. He is a First Amendment advocate, a pro se constitutional litigant, and a former twice-elected commissioner of the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority.
For more than 30 years, Stevens has used Florida's public-records law (Chapter 119), statutory enforcement, and procedural filings to hold government bodies to their own rules. In 2013 he placed a Festivus pole built from beer cans in the Florida State Capitol rotunda. He later challenged Florida's school book-removal law by filing objections to the Bible with Florida school districts. Several of his First Amendment cases ended with government bodies abandoning the position he challenged.
CNN, Fox News, NBC, ABC, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and The Katie Phang Show have covered his work. In June 2026 he appeared on FIRE's So to Speak podcast (episode 275) to discuss book bans and First Amendment litigation.
Stevens holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics, and has built for the web since 1996.
SNITCH applies that method to a narrower problem. Since July 1, 2021, Florida's SB 60 has required code complainants to put their name and address on the record. SNITCH files in its own name for residents who want a violation fixed without becoming the story.
What We Do
Florida's SB 60 took effect July 1, 2021, and ended unnamed code enforcement complaints statewide. A code inspector cannot open an investigation unless the complainant provides a name and address. The one exception belongs to the inspector: the official must have reason to believe the violation poses an imminent threat to public health, safety, or welfare, or imminent destruction of habitat or sensitive resources. Under Chapter 119, the complainant's name and address become public records the property owner can request.
That stops most people. Reporting a neighbor's overgrown lot, an unpermitted structure, or an illegal short-term rental means handing that neighbor a document with your name on it.
SNITCH files the complaint in its own name as the complainant of record. You photograph the condition, note the address, and describe what you see. We review the submission for completeness, confirm the city or county accepts a complaint filed by SNITCH, and file it with the code enforcement department. Your name does not appear on the complaint. A subpoena or court order can still compel us to disclose client information, so filing through SNITCH reduces your exposure. It does not erase it.
SNITCH takes complaints from all 67 Florida counties. Acceptance of agent-filed complaints varies by jurisdiction, and some cities run code enforcement separately from their county (Orlando and Orange County, for example), so we confirm the specific agency before you pay. County pages: Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Orange, Duval, Sarasota, Lee, Collier, Volusia, Brevard, Polk, Seminole, and Manatee. Pricing starts at $399 per filing. Same-day filing is available for premium customers once verification clears.
Our Commitment
SNITCH runs on one principle: a code violation is a code violation regardless of who reports it. Since SB 60 took effect July 1, 2021, filing directly means putting your name and address on a public record. SNITCH gives residents who won't do that a way into the same enforcement process.
Florida code enforcement runs on complaints. Under Chapter 162, Florida Statutes, cities and counties enforce their codes through code enforcement boards and special magistrates, and inspectors respond to what residents report. An overgrown lot draws rats. An unpermitted addition skips the inspections the Florida Building Code requires. A derelict car on blocks sits until someone files. The people living next to those conditions often have the most to lose by signing a complaint: renters facing their landlord, homeowners in a 40-unit HOA, residents of a town where the code officer knows everyone.
SNITCH is not a law enforcement agency or a law firm. We do not investigate violations, inspect property, decide disputes, or guarantee an outcome. We review each submission for completeness, identify the city or county department that handles it, confirm that department accepts a complaint filed by SNITCH, and file. After that, the case belongs to the inspector, and if it goes further, to the code enforcement board or special magistrate.
If we can't take a complaint, we tell you before you pay, and we tell you why. Common reasons: the property is outside Florida, the jurisdiction won't accept an agent filing, the submission targets a person instead of a condition, or the photos don't show the condition described. If a condition threatens immediate harm, call 911 or the code enforcement office yourself. Under SB 60, an inspector can act without a complainant's name when the inspector believes the threat is imminent. That call is the inspector's to make, and it shouldn't wait on us.
Our founder spent 30 years using public-records requests and procedural challenges to hold Florida government bodies to their own rules. SNITCH brings that habit to one job: getting a real complaint to the right desk, in the right form, with our name on it.