Assistant principal arrested, accused of casting fraudulent homecoming court votes for daughter
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Posted at 1:44 PM, Mar 16, 2021
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) â An assistant principal is accused of accessing the school districtâs internal system to cast fraudulent votes for her daughter, who was elected homecoming queen.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says 50-year-old Laura Rose Carroll and her 17-year-old daughter were arrested Monday. Both are facing multiple felony charges, as well as a misdemeanor.
The allegations stem from the homecoming court vote at Pensacola s Tate High School in October.
In November, the school district reported unauthorized access into hundreds of student accounts.
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A Florida mother helped her daughter hack into hundreds of student accounts to ensure that she was crowned homecoming queen, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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The school district brought FDLE into the investigation soon after the vote, alleging unauthorized access into hundreds of student accounts.
Investigators further alleged the mother s FOCUS account was used as far back as August 2019 to access 372 high school records 339 of which belonged to Tate High School students. I recall times that [the teen] logged onto her mom s FOCUS account and openly shared information, grades, schedules, etc., with others, one student told investigators, according to the arrest document, reports
The Washington Post. She did not seem like logging in was a big deal and was very comfortable with doing so.
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