Longboat Key code enforcement complaints
Town desk. Not Sarasota County.
Inside town limits, Longboat Key code complaints go to the Town’s Code Enforcement Division in the Planning, Zoning & Building Department.
SNITCH is a private filing service, not the Town. We file as complainant of record. Your name stays off the complaint.
Compliant with Florida SB 60.
Filed with Longboat Key Code Enforcement under our name.
Fear of Retaliation
Longboat Key puts it this way: “Persons who report potential violations of codes and ordinances will be required to provide legal name and address to the governing body before an investigation can begin.” File it yourself and that record is public under Chapter 119.
Who Handles It
Inside Longboat Key: Longboat Key Code Enforcement. Unincorporated Sarasota: Sarasota County Code Enforcement (Planning and Development Services). Other cities run their own desks.
Agent Filing Rules
We file under our name with the desk that owns the address. If that shop bounces a third-party complainant, that filing does not sit there.
How It Works
"SNITCH cuts through red tape—handling your code complaints professionally, safely, and always in compliance with Florida law.
- Chaz Stevens, Chief Snitch
We file the real ones.
We reject the rest.
Town code. Not a grudge.
Every submission is checked against the Longboat Key code, including Chapter 104, Property Maintenance Standards. Hearsay, neighbor wars, and junk filings do not go out. A false complaint is on the client.
Issues Longboat Key highlights: short-term rental minimum 30 days/one month, Residential Rental Certificate of Registration, marine turtle protection lighting (May 1-Oct 31), and signs in the right-of-way.
FL SB 60
Why It Matters
SB 60 DID NOT END LONGBOAT KEY COMPLAINTS
Florida law requires a name and address before most code investigations start. File direct with Longboat Key Code Enforcement and that name is public. SNITCH files as complainant of record.
Compliant filing. Our name on the paper.
See something. File it without becoming the file.
FAQS
Who handles code enforcement in Longboat Key?
The Town of Longboat Key Code Enforcement Division, part of the Planning, Zoning & Building Department. Call (941) 316-1971. Online, use Accela Citizen Portal / SeeClickFix. Email: codeenforcement@longboatkey.org.
Is my address Longboat Key or Sarasota County?
Longboat Key handles addresses inside its town limits. Unincorporated Sarasota goes to Sarasota County Code Enforcement (Planning and Development Services) at (941) 861-5000. A Longboat Key mailing address is not always inside the town.
How do I look up a Longboat Key code violation?
Use Accela Citizen Portal (search Code Enforcement records) on the Town’s website.
Can I rent my Longboat Key home short-term?
Unless the property is grandfathered as a tourism use or is in a tourism-zoned district, each rental must be at least 30 consecutive days or one calendar month, and rentals under 6 months need a Residential Rental Certificate of Registration.
Can I report a code violation in Longboat Key anonymously?
Not to the town. Longboat Key says: “Persons who report potential violations of codes and ordinances will be required to provide legal name and address to the governing body before an investigation can begin.” SNITCH is not anonymous either: we file under our own name as complainant of record, so yours stays off the complaint.
What happens if a violation is not fixed?
Unresolved Longboat Key code cases go before a Special Magistrate. Special Magistrate hearings are held the second Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m. in the Town Commission Chambers, 501 Bay Isles Rd.
Is my name on the complaint? What if a desk will not take an agent filing? Our FAQs answer both.
Official Contacts
- Town of Longboat Key Code Enforcement Division: (941) 316-1971. Online: Accela Citizen Portal / SeeClickFix.
- Case search: Accela Citizen Portal (search Code Enforcement records).
- Unincorporated Sarasota: Sarasota County Code Enforcement (Planning and Development Services), (941) 861-5000. County hub: Sarasota County.
Longboat Key town limits.
How The Split Works
Longboat Key: Longboat Key Code Enforcement. Unincorporated Sarasota: Sarasota County Code Enforcement (Planning and Development Services). We identify the desk and file there.
You document it. We file it under our name.
Built with Integrity
- SB 60 / Chapter 162 compliant
- Human review before filing
- Junk rejected. Real conditions filed.
SNITCH. Cleaner. Safer. Together.