A high school homecoming queen lamented that her life had been destroyed as a result of her and her vice principal’s mother fixing the competition by using fictitious votes.
When she and her mother, Laura Carroll, were detained in March 2021 for allegedly using privileged student information to cast hundreds of fictitious votes in the 2020 election at their school in Pensacola, Florida, Emily Rose Grover, 19, claims she was wrongfully arrested and had her civil rights violated.
Grover entered a plea of not guilty to the charges, which were later withdrawn once she finished a monitored programme. Grover now intends to sue over the event.
Grover recently submitted a notice of intent to regain her identity and establish her innocence in Escambia County, Florida.
The little girl is “trying to go back to a sense of normality,” according to her attorney, who also claims that the fact that her client completed the programme does not and does not imply her guilt.
She wants to be able to rebuild her life without the devastation of the past and lead the typical life she had planned. Informed Wear-TV, Mattox.
Her acceptance of a bid to join the Alpha Delta Pi sorority at the University of West Florida, where her admittance with a full-ride scholarship was initially revoked due to the incident, is one way she is accomplishing that.
One of the girls Grover went to church with, Baylee Sanders, expressed astonishment at Grover’s acceptance into a sorority at her new school to the New York Post.
According to what I’ve heard, they are often the tough sorority.
But after that, they’ll accept a female who was detained and charged with four crimes!
Sanders, 23, also described Emily’s reputation as a “mean girl” before to her major bust.
She was more of a mean girl at school, popular, etc., according to what the other females in the [friend] circle claimed about her. They made it sound just like how the movie “Mean Girls” made it sound. She treats people well in front of them, but she speaks about them behind their backs, the speaker said.
By the time Emily Grover sought membership in Alpha Delta Pi, according to a sorority official, “she had been entirely cleared of all charges.”
Carroll was also fired from her position as vice principal of an elementary school due to the event.
Marie Mattox, Emily’s lawyer, described the situation as “a dark cloud that follows Emily everywhere she goes,” adding that if a “thorough” investigation had been carried out, it would have revealed that Grover “didn’t engage in any criminal activity” and “was not involved at all in casting any votes.”
After the event, Mattox said, her client is now “very, very vulnerable.”
‘For over two years, her life essentially came to a halt. She then had to take stock of her life, put everything on pause, and attempt to recover from this terrible event and resume living normally,’ the woman told the Post.
Agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement first found proof that Carroll’s administrator account had been used to gain unlawful access to student data.
Grover’s case was originally reported by The Daily Mail.
At the time, a number of Grover’s Tate classmates and peers told the media that the youngster had long boasted about having access to confidential material via her mother’s account.
In a statement to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, a student said, “I have known since freshman year that Emily Grover logs into her mom’s school account in order to get grades and test results.”
She always remarks about how she can locate our test results and checks all of our friends’ grades.
She seemed to think that logging in was not a big thing and was completely at ease doing it, according to one person.
Investigations ultimately revealed that Carroll had accessed 372 high school data since 2019, 339 of which belonged to Tate pupils.
The school board’s software was accessible to Carroll at the district level at the time, according to the authorities, and she had completed her yearly training on “Staff Responsible Use of Guidelines for Technology” in full.
Students’ grades, medical histories, test results, attendance, disciplinary actions, personnel information, emergency contacts, timetables, and student ID numbers are all stored in the system. Students may vote for the homecoming court using an application called Election runner, which was connected to it.
Grover said in an interview with GMA last year that despite the school’s removal of the hundreds of ballots it claimed were cast unlawfully, she was still the homecoming queen contender with the most votes.