Dive summary:

• The Houston City Council is expected to repeal a decades-old law which makes it illegal to go through public trash cans.
• The law made it into the public light recently when a homeless man was ticketed for rummaging through a public trash can looking for something to eat.
• Even if the bill is repealed, it will continue to be illegal to go through garbage cans that belong to private residents or businesses. 

From the article:

City Council is expected to repeal the city ordinance that made the action illegal and saw James Kelly recently cited for looking for food near City Hall, the Houston Chronicle reported.

City lawyers wrote that the ordinance "adversely impacts homeless persons and absorbs law enforcement time that could otherwise be spent preventing more significant criminal activity," the newspaper reported. ...