High-schooler and her mother hacked school records to steal homecoming queen election, police say
Jaclyn Peiser, The Washington Post
March 16, 2021
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In a sparkling silver dress, the homecoming queen at J.M. Tate High School in Cantonment, Fla., stood on the football field on a brisk evening in late October to accept her crown.
But among the students, whispers had already begun spreading about her victory. The homecoming queen had bragged for years about abusing the access her mother had to student records as an assistant principal in the same school system, witnesses later told investigators.
An assistant principal at an elementary school is accused of accessing the school district s internal system to cast fraudulent votes for her daughter who was elected homecoming queen at her high school, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said.
An assistant principal in Florida has been arrested alongside her 17-year-old daughter after they allegedly accessed school accounts without permission to rig a homecoming queen election. Laura Rose Carroll, 50, an assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, is accused of using her position to access the Escambia County School District internal system to cast fake votes for her daughter, who attended a separate school also located in the.