Public feedings are often a target of the new laws. In Houston, groups need written consent to feed the homeless in public, or they face a $2,000 fine. Organizations in Columbia, South Carolina, must pay $150 for a permit more than two weeks in advance to feed the homeless in city parks.

In Orlando, an ordinance requires groups to get a permit to feed 25 or more people in parks in a downtown district. Groups are limited to two permits per year for each park. Since then, numerous activists have been arrested for violating the law.

So, once again, all you need is a permit. This old man wasn't even arrested, he was prepping more food later that week.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So, once again, all you need is a permit.

doesn't match up with:

Groups are limited to two permits per year for each park.

Two permits per year per park. I eat more than 365 times, per year, myself.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's a fair criticism, but technically you could show up and feed exactly 24 people every day. Two of your neighbor could also do that, completely coincidentally.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

Good point.

[–] JayDee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the point of these laws exactly? What do they prevent from happening? What is their key purpose that benefits the community inhabitants?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The ones that cost money or have additional barriers are purely malicious and attempt to make the city a worse place for homeless people to live, but the ones that are a simple vetting process are beneficial in that only professionals handle distributing food so as to prevent mass food poisoning events or the spread of bacteria and disease.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Is there a specific event where a city stopped issuing permits to feed homeless

Super Bible thumping Texas - "Houston volunteers face thousands in fines for feeding homeless. Police have issued 44 tickets in a crackdown on food sharing after the mayor vowed to ‘retake’ the downtown public library"

Anti-humanism abounds, mass dehumanization is popular in America.

"a city ordinance passed in 2012 mandating that groups get permission from property owners, even if on public property, to distribute food to more than five people."

Bible verse Matthew 18:20: "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them." - I'm sure they forget to Thump that verse in Texas along with "1 John 4:20" and "1 John 3:17". Romans 11:32 upon them all!

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"be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize — I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to — segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence." - "Social Justice and the Emerging New Age" address at the Herman W. Read Fieldhouse, Western Michigan University (18 December 1963)

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So then a "no" to my question. The people only needed permission even if that law were upheld.

Also, an update to your story HERE

A social justice volunteer in Houston has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, arguing a law banning sharing food with people outdoors violates his freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

On Friday, a jury found Food Not Bombs volunteer Phillip Picone, 66, not guilty of breaking the law for feeding unhoused people outside a public library.