Editing Twelve Tribes communities (section)

===The Island Pond raid===
[[File:Island Pond raid.jpg|thumb|Members leaving the courthouse with their children on June 22, 1984]]
On June 22, 1984, Vermont State Police arrived at the Twelve Tribes' Island Pond residences and took custody of hundreds of group members with their children, based on an investigation of accusations of child abuse.  All cases were dismissed when a judge found that the search warrant was unconstitutional.<ref name="childNR" />{{Rp|page=153}} Frank Mahady, the judge in the case, called the action a "grossly unlawful scheme", while Judge Wolchik, who had signed the initial search warrant, said that he was given "false or unreliable information".<ref name="childNR" />{{Rp|page=153}}

The Vermont Chapter of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (ACLU) also criticized the raid, calling it "frightening" and "the greatest deprivation of civil liberties to have occurred in recent Vermont history."<ref name="ACLU">{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Colin |date=June 26, 1984 |title=ACLU: Raid on Sect was Lawless act by Vermont |work=The Boston Globe |publisher=[[New York Times Company]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[Richard Snelling]], the governor of Vermont who had authorized the raid, reportedly drew the "hottest political fire of his career" in the weeks after;<ref name="laditude">{{cite news |last=Nickerson |first=Colin |date=July 25, 1989 |title=Island Pond Case: How Much Latitude Does the Church have? |work=The Boston Globe |publisher=[[New York Times Company]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> while [[Vermont Attorney General]] [[John J. Easton Jr.]] attributed the raid to assisting his campaign for governorship.<ref name="govenorrace">{{cite news |last=Kranish |first=Michael |date=June 26, 1984 |title=Governor's Race a nail biter, Legislature Might Decide winner |work=The Boston Globe |publisher=[[New York Times Company]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

In 1992, John Burchard, who had been the State Commissioner of Social and Rehabilitation Services, and Vanessa L. Malcarne, published an article in ''[[Behavioral Sciences and the Law]]'', encouraging changes in the law that would have allowed the raid to succeed.<ref name="Buchard">{{cite journal |last=Buchard |first=John D. |author2=Malcarne, Vanessa L. |year=1992 |title=Investigation of Child abuse/Neglect in Religious Cults |journal=Behavioral Sciences and the Law |volume=10 |pages=75–88 |doi=10.1002/bsl.2370100108}}</ref><ref name="Boulder2011-05-12">{{cite web |date=May 12, 2011 |title=Father, son & holy toast |url=http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-5583-father-son-holy-toast.html |access-date=October 17, 2017 |work=[[Boulder Weekly]]}}</ref>  The group held anniversary events in both 1994 and 2000;<ref name="16thani">{{cite news |last=New York Times |date=June 19, 2000 |title=Island Pond Journal; Trip Home to Stand Up For Their Community |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/19/us/island-pond-journal-trip-home-to-stand-up-for-their-community.html?pagewanted=1 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527142128/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/19/us/island-pond-journal-trip-home-to-stand-up-for-their-community.html |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |access-date=January 10, 2010 |work=New York Times}}</ref> and produced a 75-minute documentary.<ref name="Bigbro">{{cite news |last=Freyne |first=Peter |date=July 27, 2005 |title=When Big Brother Ran Vermont |url=http://www.7dvt.com/2005/when-big-brother-ran-vermont |access-date=January 10, 2010 |work=Seven Days |publisher=[[Seven Days (newspaper)|Seven Days]]}}</ref>