A Texas group that feeds the homeless has racked up 80 citations from city officials. But they say they're not backing down.

• A Houston volunteer group has gotten 80 citations for giving away food to the homeless.
• The city says they're violating an ordinance, but the group says they have a right to give out food.
• The group says, despite the tickets, they're not going anywhere.

A volunteer group in Houston has gotten dozens of tickets from police while handing out food to homeless people, but they say they won't stop doing what they're doing.

Four nights a week for about 15 years, the Houston chapter of Food Not Bombs, an international charitable group, has been serving vegetarian and vegan meals to about 100 to 150 homeless residents outside the city's downtown public library, volunteer Shere Dore told Business Insider.