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Florida teen charged as an adult in homecoming queen election scandal pleads not guilty Annie Blanks, Pensacola News Journal © Courtesy of the Escambia County School District Boxes of goggles, collected by Science instructor Al Culp from J.M. Tate High School, were collected and donated to Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital. PENSACOLA, Fla. – Emily Grover, the Florida high school homecoming queen accused of rigging her school's election, pleaded not guilty in court this week to all four charges she faces.  Grover, who was 17 when arrested and has since turned 18, is ...

The investigation ultimately found that Carroll's "district-level access" to the FOCUS system enabled her and Grover to cast 246 votes across two devices for Grover as homecoming queen. The investigation also said that Grover allegedly openly used her mother's FOCUS account to access other students' profiles, which contain information such as grades, medical records and test scores. Law enforcement officials collected nine statements from students and a teacher who said they either heard Grover talking about accessing the account or watched her log onto it over the course of four years. Gro...

May 14, 2021 A former Tate High School homecoming queen has entered a not guilty plea to the charges against her. Emily Rose Grover, 18, was scheduled to appear in court Friday. She waived her appearance and instead entered a written plea of not guilty through her attorney Randall Etheridge. Grover was 17-year old juvenile at the time of her arrest in April by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. She turned 18 just a few days later, and is now being tried as an adult. Grover and her mother Laura Carroll, former assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, were charged by the Flori...

Emily Rose Grover, Teen Accused of Rigging Homecoming in Florida, Faces 16 Years in Prison On 5/6/21 at 12:34 PM EDT A teenager accused of rigging a homecoming queen election with her mother will be charged as an adult and could face 16 years in prison, prosecutors said Tuesday. Emily Rose Grover was 17 years old when she was arrested in March for multiple felony charges, but she turned 18 in April. The State Attorney's Office in Escambia County, Florida, confirmed to ABC News that she will be tried as an adult. Prosecutors allege she and her 50-year-old mother, Laura Rose Carroll, rigged the...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A teen and her mother were charged for allegedly hacking into the computer accounts of hundreds of students to cast fake votes at a homecoming queen contest, ABC News reported on Wednesday. Emily Grover, an 18-year-old student at Tate High School Pensacola in Florida, is being charged as an adult and could face up to 16 years in prison if convicted for unauthorized use of technology. The teen and her mother Laura Carroll are accused of casting a total of 246 fake votes for the homecoming queen election. Investigators said they...