PORT RICHEY, Florida – The owners of a so-called ‘swingers club’ are facing a lawsuit from Pasco County.

Club Elite is located on U.S. 19 in Port Richey. Its web site boasts it’s the “Bay Area’s premiere swingers club.”

Shortly after the club opening September 2007, the sheriff’s office started getting complaints. Two undercover detectives visited three times between November 2007 and May of 2008.

“They did see people openly having sex in some of the rooms of that club,” said Pasco sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Doll.

Detectives wrote 13 pages worth of reports about what they saw. In one passage, a detective wrote there were “280 people in the establishment, it was like a big orgy.” In another report, the vice narcotics operatives said they saw sex shows complete with leather whips and sex toys.

Detectives did not make any arrests, in part to protect their undercover status and because such cases have been historically difficult to criminally prosecute.

But now the sheriff’s reports are the basis of a lawsuit against Club Elite. Lawyers for the county say the club violates the zoning rules regulating sexually oriented businesses.

Club Elite’s attorney Julian Hayes told FOX 13 he could not comment on the case because neither he nor his clients have been served with the lawsuit.