According to reports published by the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, over sixty cities across twenty-five states require prior permits, with burdensome restrictions, for people to lawfully share food with hungry people at an ostensibly public, but actually city-owned, property like a park, plaza, sidewalk, or street, and in over a dozen litigated cases, failure to obtain such permits resulted in arrest and prosecution for a misdemeanor.

Therefore, one way to understand the food-sharing cases is to carefully study the cities that enact such laws, particularly in terms of their local history, politics, civil rights struggles, etc. The chart below, which I plan to update with pages for each city derives from Appendix 2. U.S. Cities with Anti-Food-Sharing Laws (by state), in Marc-Tizoc González, Criminalizing Charity: Can First Amendment Free Exercise of Religion, RFRA, and RLUIPA Protect People Who Share Food in Public?, 7 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 291, 345 (2017).

Alabama Birmingham	Arizona Phoenix	California (10) Chico Costa Mesa Hayward Los Angeles Malibu Ocean Beach Pasadena Santa Monica Sacramento Ventura	Colorado Denver	Connecticut Middletown
Florida (11) Daytona Beach Fort Lauderdale Gainesville Jacksonville Lake Worth Melbourne Miami Orlando Palm Bay St. Petersburg Tampa	Georgia Atlanta	Indiana Indianapolis Lafayette	Iowa Cedar Rapids Davenport	Kentucky Covington
Maryland Baltimore	Missouri Kansas City St. Louis Springfield	North Carolina Charlotte Raleigh Springfield	New Hampshire Manchester	New Mexico Albuquerque
Nevada Las Vegas	Ohio Dayton	Oklahoma Oklahoma City Shawnee	Oregon Medford	Pennsylvania Harrisburg Philadelphia
South Carolina Columbia Myrtle Beach	Tennessee Nashville	Texas Corpus Christi Dallas Houston	Utah Salt Lake City	Washington Olympia Seattle Sultan