The Raleigh City Council agreed yesterday with a committee recommendation that would ease permit rules for charities providing meals to the homeless in Moore Square, according to WRAL.
The city got national attention when volunteers felt threatened with arrest Aug. 25. Representatives of Love Wins Ministries in Raleigh said they were told several times that that they would be arrested if they didn’t stop passing out the food and leave the area.
Love Wins and other charities balked at what they called pressure to disperse and used social media to plead their case. The city reacted swiftly. Within days, the Law & Public Safety Committee had lifted the permit fee. Yesterday’s vote cements that action.
