Crime-Facilitating Speech

Volokh provides a discussion of the legality/illegality of crime-facilitating speech in the age of instantaneous electronic communications. Reference is made to a lookout network.

Lydia Guzman, director of the nonprofit immigrant advocacy group Respect/Respeto, is the trunk of a sophisticated texting tree designed to alert thousands of people within minutes to the details of the sweeps, which critics contend are an excuse to round up illegal immigrants.

Guzman said the messages are part of an effort to protect Latinos and others from becoming victims of racial profiling by sheriff's deputies....

Offhand, I'd suggest that any network dedicated and used to assist criminals in avoiding prosecution should be illegal. Heh.