Backstreet Boys’ Brian Littrell Claims Local Sheriff Failed to Remove People Off His Beachfront Property

Backstreet Boys member Brian Littrell is suing a local Florida sheriff’s office for allegedly failing to keep trespassers off his private property. 

In a lawsuit filed on June 19 by Littrell’s BLB Beach Hut LLC, the singer accuses the Walton County Sheriff’s Office of failing to remove trespasses from the oceanfront property he lives on with his family. The group is seeking a writ of mandamus — a legal request asking the judge to order the department to take action. The suit argues the sheriff’s office is responsible for warning and prosecuting trespassers after a given warning because of a Trespass Authorization Form signed by both parties.

“Despite BLB’s numerous requests and the execution of required forms, the Sheriff has refused to come to the Subject Property to enforce the law,” the petition claims.

According to the suit, BLB installed multiple “no trespassing” signs on the Santa Rosa Beach property to prevent those set out to “antagonize, bully and harass the Littrell family.” Allegedly, it happened regularly, every day. The company claims it was forced to hire security to protect them. 

The lawsuit explained one particular instance on May 4, when a sheriff’s officer responded to a report of a trespasser. The suit claims body camera footage caught the officer saying he “‘doesn’t agree with private beaches,’ going on to characterize BLB’s insistence that its constitutional rights be upheld as ‘lunacy.'”

Another recorded incident on June 5 alleges trespassers “committed a battery and theft” after “forcibly yanking a folder… out of the property manager’s hand and scattered the papers into the wind across the beach.” BLB says they reached out to the sheriff’s office three times that day, and on the third 911 call, the operator hung up. 

“If the Sheriff continues to refuse to protect and uphold the rights of BLB and other community members, private property and other rights held by Florida citizens will only exist on paper,” the suit claims.

“The Walton County Sheriff’s Office prides itself on handling every situation, call for service, or interaction with professionalism using a customer service approach,” the department shared in a statement with PEOPLE. “This has always been our philosophy and will remain so moving forward.”

“[The trespassers] are coming after my family, greatly, they’re coming after my son, they’re coming after my wife,” Littrell, 50, said of Leighanne, 55, and Baylee, 22, during a July 16 Fox News interview. 

According to the property records filed in the suit, the Backstreet Boys member purchased the home in February 2023. According to the Associated Press, the singer purchased the home for $3.8 million. 

Last week, Littrell joined the rest of the Backstreet Boys to kickoff their Las Vegas residency at the Sphere on July 11.