The organization has received more than 80 tickets for feeding unhoused Houstonians outside of the Central Library in downtown. However, the two arrests are seemingly unrelated to the organization's continued food serving.
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An attorney representing Food not Bombs volunteers went to a court hearing on Friday after claims that the city was enforcing a decade-old ordinance now because of a spike in crime.
The city began issuing citations for the first time earlier this year, after the organization had been feeding the homeless outside the downtown library for two decades.