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Tate Homecoming Scandal Update

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Laura Carroll and Emily Grover have filed civil suits against the Escambia County School District, FDLE, Chip Simmons in his official capacity, Gary Marsh, Brian Johnson, and Stephanie Cassidy in their respective capacities. Honestly, there is less ill will and imagination in these suits as there was in the criminal cases against these ladies. It still defies the sensibilities to think that one school administrator can make assertions that the sky is falling and without much resistance, law enforcement officials and school board agents, again, without due diligence, go to the nuclear option of destroying a woman’s career and her daughter’s entire high school experience.

This entire case is nonsensical. Hacked homecoming result? Criminal behavior? It simply make no sense. A few people went through a lot of work to create a something that simply wasn’t there, while they simultaneously, were inept at following actual investigative procedures. The assertions of the Escambia County School administrator, Carolyn Gray, or should I refer to her as the prima donna, is simply making a mountain out of a molehill and begs the questions, why ?? She sounds the alarm. Contacts the school board. Insists there was criminal activity? The whole busybody stereotype seems like a legitimate characterization here.

Homecoming is a big deal to students; I get that. Even if the allegations were possible, shouldn’t someone vet the information to make sure there is evidence of an actual crime? Involving law enforcement and allowing sophomoric accusations without evidence to evolve into something that destroys life without a reasonable amount of analysis is the insanity here. Frankly I don’t understand why Ms. Gray isn’t named as a conspirator. Maybe it’s because she really is insignificant. Just spitballing.

As always, I am disappointed at the number of learned, professional people who go along with a flimsy accusation, willing to cry “the sky is falling”, without ever looking up to see if it is.

I have highlighted a few significant points in each of these lawsuits.

At 11:19 a.m., Wilson wrote back and asked, “Is anything showing up on the fraud detection report?

27. At 11:25 a.m., Gray responded, “Yes we have one girl that dropped by 114 vote after I deleted the big chunks of fraud voting. We are hopeful you could give us the IP address of where all these votes were cast from.”

28.   At 11:26 a.m., Gray added, “I deleted one chunk of votes (probably 50+) and cannot recover them to see dates/times, but I copy/pasted the second chunk and have interviewed several of those students and they said they never logged into (sic) vote nor did they give out their information. So this Homecoming diva has stolen student numbers and birthdays and we kind of need a little more proof before we accuse anyone of anything.”

excerpts from emails obtained in the Laura carroll lawsuit page 5.

“We kind of need a little more proof before we accuse anyone of anything”……Yet they go with anemic data that is not been confirmed to be valid.

33. At 1:04 p.m., Gray further explained, “Specifically, it was the chunk of votes that took place from about 1AM-6AM on 10/30/20 … per the report you sent me. They are not there because I ‘discarded’ them from the fraud report. Those are the ones my principal is requesting.

I’m so sorry I’m being so annoying and dramatic about this, but we think a fellow teacher helped this student out by giving out student info so that’s why it’s escalated into this big deal.”

On October 30th, besides Gray’s actions stated above, an “anonymous” reporter accessed Defendant ECSD’s FW&A hotline reporting system and either telephoned or made a written report that there had been fraudulent votes entered in Tate High School’s homecoming election.

You see what we are working with in terms of “facts”, right? An anonymous reporter? Seriously? Then we have scare tactics and intimidation from Gary Marsh, the savior of the school board whose pronouncement of a crime, make it so.

It was only towards the end of the recorded statement that Marsh told Plaintiff that due to the “data breach” he would have to get the “Attorney General’s Office . . . involved

Thank God we have someone looking out for the kids. (Please note the sarcastic tone). How ever would the world have done without Marsh finding a data breach before actual evidence came in. Again this is a sarcastic remark. I have to make sure because I am sure I’m hurting someone’s feelings by now.

The fact Carroll & Grover had to hire attorneys after being involved in this sham of criminal case that disrupted their lives, is the tragedy here. I personally have created prolonged investigations and gathered facts that were presented to the state attorney’s office and had it ignored, illustrates there is understanding of right and wrong by these professionals. But those cases, with incontrovertible evidence, were ignored, but this “date breach” and “fraud” was pursued.

It really makes you wonder who is running the asylum. Here are the links to Laura Carroll’s lawsuit and Emily Grover’s lawsuit. Please review it and see the utter junk that was presented in this case.

did she say “Homecoming diva”? by Jimmie Staley

Pensacola Homecoming scandal: yOU KNOW THIS CASE, RIGHT?

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I am sure you heard about the Homecoming Scandal that happened in Pensacola last year. As I understood from the news stories I read, this case was akin to the Cheerleader murder from Texas. You know, an overzealous mother who murdered her daughter’s competition, thus securing her daughter’s place as a cheerleader. Minus the murder, this was the same scenario, at least as it was portrayed as by the local media. Laura Carroll, Vice-Principal of Bellview Elementary either through her own access to Escambia County School District internal server (FOCUS) or her daughter, Emily Grover, used her login, surreptitiously to cast votes for Tate Homecoming Queen in 2020. The mother & daughter were arrested March 15, 2021, for unlawful use of a two-way communication device, offenses against users of computer, computer systems, computer networks & electronic devices and conspiracy to commit these offenses. Emly was expelled, despite having no disciplinary record and being an exemplary student about to graduate in 6 weeks at the time of the arrest.

According to PNJ, Tuesday, March 16, 2021:

“In October 2020, the school district flagged hundreds of votes for Tate High School’s homecoming court as fraudulent. FDLE was contacted and special agents launched an investigation.

FDLE special agents discovered that 117 of the fraudulent votes originated from the same IP address within a short period of time and they tied that IP address to Carroll & Grover’s computer usage.

FDLE spokesperson Gretl Plessinger told the News Journal, agents learned that Carroll & Grover used FOCUS to cast the fraudulent votes to win homecoming queen at Tate High School….

Nine students and one teacher provided written statements to authorities that detailed how Grover had spoken about accessing her mother’s FOCUS account or had seen her access the county system for almost 4 years, according to the arrest warrant.”

This seems cut and dry, doesn’t it? Hardly. My immediate question was, with this access and purported “abuse” of info, was there no other compromised records, involving school grades, medical records, disciplinary records, student ID numbers etc? It seems to me that there are more serious violations that may actually warrant harsh punishment—not homecoming court votes. A teen who has this sort of info available would surely exploit it. Yet, that we don’t have in this case. The FOCUS site is chalked full of information that anyone with a password could exploit. That is what I would expect if someone was trying to abuse that particular website. While Carroll’s login was largely “view only” info, the voluminous privacy-protected info that potentially could have been weaponized was never compromised.

The FDLE investigator, Stephanie Cassidy, could not legitimize any of the evidence used in this case. That does not surprise me but the fact that anyone pursued criminal charges and ruined a young girl’s life with such flimsy evidence.

Here are a few excerpts from the deposition of Stephanie Cassidy:

The craziest thing though is the way Tate High handled it. Here is a clip from NorthEscambia.com:

Emily Rose 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 will now be tried as an adult.
Grover and her mother Laura Carroll, former assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, were charged by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with one count each of felony offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks, and electronic devices; felony unlawful use of a two-way communications device, felony criminal use of personally identifiable information, and conspiracy to commit these offenses. The misdemeanor conspiracy charge against both has been upgraded by prosecutors to a felony count.
One edited photo in this year’s Tate High School yearbook shows Grover’s face covered with clipart of a horse that resembles the school’s mascot. The horse’s rear-end was used to cover Grover’s face, and that is the part that has upset many. The photo is above; note that NorthEscambia.com has blurred the faces of other individuals in the picture.
“They covered her face with a horse’s rear,” one parent wrote in an email to NorthEscambia.com. “That’s just too much and should have never happened.”
“We are recalling those yearbooks to fix that problem,” Escambia County School District Superintendent Dr. Tim Smith said. “Somebody went in and made an edit that shouldn’t have happened.”
The yearbook was published after Grover’s arrest. Parents tell us some students did not receive their yearbooks after the photo was discovered.

‘Gary Marsh