Okaloosa County’s Crab Island Vending and the Rule of Law

By D. L. Norris In the March 2020 archives of this blog, there is an article titled Okaloosa County’s Crab Island Vending…Liberal Attitudes and Conservative Magnitude which discusses the history of how illegal vending at Crab Island, a National Park, began and proliferated for decades. If you aren’t familiar with the history, you may want …

Doggonit…Okaloosa County Still Can’t, or Won’t, Enforce its Code

By D. L. Norris A recurring theme woven throughout this blog is Okaloosa County’s inability to enforce its code (law). In the November 2019 and February 2020 archives, three separate articles directly address code enforcement failures. Their titles are respectively: Okaloosa County Plays a Real-life Game of Chicken; Okaloosa County’s Eroding Code Enforcement; and Okaloosa …

Okaloosa County’s Eroding Code Enforcement

By D. L. Norris In no uncertain terms, on the front page of the Okaloosa County Code Enforcement website, is a declaration that Okaloosa County enforces all code. The kicker is, it doesn’t state how well the county goes about doing that. There can be a fine line between utter incompetence and willful neglect. So …