PENSACOLA, Fla. – How far would a mother go to help her daughter get on her high school’s homecoming court? Laura Rose Carroll, an assistant principal for the Escambia County School district, was arrested Tuesday.
Carroll is accused of using her work access to the district’s computer systems, to tamper with votes for homecoming court at her daughter’s high school.
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Officials with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Carroll, an assistant principal at an elementary school in the district, accessed student accounts.
246 votes were cast for Homecoming Court at Tate High School, many of them originating from the same IP address, associated with Carroll’s home.
An investigation found that the daughter told classmates about using her mom’s account to cast votes. Carroll was arrested and booked into the Escambia County Jail with a bond set to $8,500.
The teenager was taken into custody and transferred to the Escambia Regional Juvenile Detention Center.