The crown does not seem to fit, sorry queen.
A teenage girl in Pensacola and her mother, a primary school assistant, were arrested Tuesday for allegedly hacking hundreds of student bills to fraudulently vote for the teenager as home queen in the fall.
Laura Rose Carroll, 50, and her 17-year-old daughter, Emily Rose Grover, were each charged with computer hacking, unlawful use of a two-way communication device, criminal use of personally identifiable information and conspiracy to commit it. violations.
An investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement began in November when the Escambia County School District reported that hundreds of student accounts had been illegally accessed.
Investigators determined that Carroll, an assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, and her daughter, a student at Tate High School, had access to the FOCUS accounts.
According to the FDLE, Carroll district level has access to the school board’s FOCUS program – the school district’s student service information system.
The investigation came after hundreds of votes for Tate High School’s homecoming court were found to be fraudulent, with nearly 120 votes coming from the same IP address within the same time, the FDLE said.
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Investigators linked unauthorized access to FOCUS to Carroll’s cell phone as well as computers related to her home address, with nearly 250 votes cast for the homecoming court.
Investigators said several students reported that Grover described her mother’s FOCUS bill to cast votes in her favor.
Carroll was booked into Escambia County Jail with a $ 8,500 bond, while Grover was arrested and transferred to the Escambia Local Juvenile Detention Center.
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It was not immediately clear if they had a lawyer who could speak on their behalf. The State Attorney’s Office, First Court, will prosecute the case, the FDLE said.
Fox News reached out to Tate High School for comment.