Citing a city ban on sharing food with homeless people, Houston has so far issued at least 48 citations to volunteers at the local chapter of Food Not Bombs.
in 2012, it wasn’t enforced until March of this year. Under the law, groups can’t provide free food to more than five people, without the property owner’s permission, which includes public spaces.by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty found that Houston was one of at least 17 cities that criminalize sharing food with homeless people, either citywide or in public places.
Founded as an antiwar group, the members of Houston Food Not Bombs aren’t going down without a fight. Last week, judgeseight tickets after police officers failed to appear in court. The dismissals came on the heels of the first jury trial for the Houston Food Not Bombs tickets. After a few hours of deliberation, a jury unanimously found volunteer Phillip Picone not guilty in late July.
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