When contacted by CNN, a man who identified himself as Carroll’s husband said, “We have no comment at the moment. Our lawyers have told us not to speak and we will have our day in court.”
The FDLE said it was contacted in November 2020 by the Escambia County School District about allegations of unauthorized access to hundreds of student accounts.
The statement said investigators found Carroll, an assistant director at Bellview Elementary, and her daughter, a student at Tate High, who used Carroll’s district access to enter accounts, where hundreds of fraudulent votes were cast for the homecoming court. of Taft. The votes were flagged as fraudulent when 117 votes allegedly originated from the same IP address in a short period of time. Authorities reported that FDLE agents found evidence of unauthorized access linked to Carroll’s cell phone, as well as home computers.
Investigators said they found almost 250 votes cast fraudulently for the homecoming court.
“Several students reported that Carroll’s daughter described using her mother’s account to vote,” said the statement.
The investigation also found that, as of August 2019, Carroll’s account allegedly accessed 372 high school records and 339 of them belonged to Tate students, the FDLE statement said.
Carroll and his daughter were charged with crimes against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks and electronic devices; illegal use of a two-way communication device; criminal use of personally identifiable information; and conspiracy to commit these crimes, the statement said. All but the conspiracy charge are listed as third-degree crimes.
CNN’s Amanda Jackson contributed to this report.