Penalty for feeding homeless without permit: $500 fine or 60 days in jail. Cubides said he faces a fine of $500 or 60 days in jail, a punishment he angrily denounced. "Is that a joke, guys?" he asked.

Citing a city ban on sharing food with homeless people, Houston has in recent months issued at least 48 citations to volunteers. If those tickets are upheld in court, the volunteers could be ...

Penalty for feeding homeless without permit: $500 fine or 60 days in jail. Cubides said he faces a fine of $500 or 60 days in jail, a punishment he angrily denounced. "Is that a joke, guys?" he asked.

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We feed and clothe the homeless but do not give any other meaningful support to prepare them to leave the streets. Advocates justify behaviors like drug use, theft and person-to-person crimes ...

West Palm Beach, responding to a recent court ruling, took steps to tweak its ordinance requiring people and organizations who run homeless food programs at public parks to get special permits. In ...

Norma Thornton, 78, was arrested in March by Bullhead City, Arizona, police for violating a city ordinance just after she’d finished serving food to the needy in Bullhead City Community Park.

4. There is trash. This happens, but we pick up litter we see associated with our donations. People who aren't homeless litter, too. 5. I should have a right to show the homeless I care.

HOUSTON – A volunteer who was ticketed by Houston Police for feeding the homeless outside the public library back in March was found not guilty in a criminal court trial earlier this week.

FILE: Members of Food Not Bombs received citations for feeding the homeless on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. On July 28, 2023, courts ruled the city’s feeding ordinance unconstitutional.

Three years later, seven people in Tampa were arrested for feeding the homeless without a permit. A year after that, 12 volunteers in El Cajon , California, were charged with misdemeanors for ...

Community members helping homeless in West Palm Beach say a city ordinance is hurting their efforts to feed those in need. This is as the ordinance requires a permit to feed groups of 25-plus people.