Sarasota code enforcement complaints
City desk. Not Sarasota County.
Inside city limits, Sarasota code complaints go to the City’s Code Compliance Division in the Development Services Department.
SNITCH is a private filing service, not the City. We file as complainant of record. Your name stays off the complaint.
Compliant with Florida SB 60.
Filed with Sarasota Code Compliance under our name.
Fear of Retaliation
Sarasota puts it this way: “Per Senate Bill 60, effective July 1, 2021, anonymous code compliance complaints may no longer be submitted and investigated.” File it yourself and that record is public under Chapter 119.
Who Handles It
Inside Sarasota: Sarasota Code Compliance. 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.
"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.
City code. Not a grudge.
Every submission is checked against the Sarasota code, including Chapter 2, Article V, Division 5, Code Compliance System. Hearsay, neighbor wars, and junk filings do not go out. A false complaint is on the client.
Issues Sarasota highlights: vacation rental certificate of registration, RVs, boats and campers (no living in them), lot overgrowth, and foreclosed or abandoned property registration.
FL SB 60
Why It Matters
SB 60 DID NOT END SARASOTA COMPLAINTS
Florida law requires a name and address before most code investigations start. File direct with Sarasota Code Compliance 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 Sarasota?
The City of Sarasota Code Compliance Division, part of the Development Services Department. Call (941) 263-6417. Online, use Citizen Connect Portal. Email: codecompliance@sarasotafl.gov.
Is my address Sarasota or Sarasota County?
Sarasota handles addresses inside its city limits. Unincorporated Sarasota goes to Sarasota County Code Enforcement (Planning and Development Services) at (941) 861-5000. A Sarasota mailing address is not always inside the city.
How do I look up a Sarasota code violation?
Use Citizen Connect - Code Enforcement case records on the City’s website.
Do I need to register my vacation rental in the City of Sarasota?
Yes, if it is a single- to four-family dwelling in a residential zone district; owner-occupied rentals, condos, co-ops and rentals of 30+ consecutive days are exempt, and renewals run July 1-October 1.
Can I report a code violation in Sarasota anonymously?
Not to the city. Sarasota says: “Per Senate Bill 60, effective July 1, 2021, anonymous code compliance complaints may no longer be submitted and investigated.” 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 Sarasota code cases go before a Special Magistrate. Code violation hearings are held Thursdays from about 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. before a Special Magistrate at the City Hall Annex SRQ Media Center, 1565 First St.
Is my name on the complaint? What if a desk will not take an agent filing? Our FAQs answer both.
Official Contacts
- City of Sarasota Code Compliance Division: (941) 263-6417. Online: Citizen Connect Portal.
- Case search: Citizen Connect - Code Enforcement case records.
- Unincorporated Sarasota: Sarasota County Code Enforcement (Planning and Development Services), (941) 861-5000. County hub: Sarasota County.
Sarasota city limits.
How The Split Works
Sarasota: Sarasota Code Compliance. 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.