“We homeschool them,” he says, “so it’s a very busy household.” Law enforcement in the spotlight They’re now raising five daughters in a restored farmhouse located between Ithaca and Auburn. (They didn’t meet on campus, but rather while both working at Ithaca’s Cass Park during a high school summer.) On the personal side, Grantz is married to a classmate, Deanna Sharpsteen Grantz ’99.

Grantz with future wife Deanna on their graduation day He now supervises four investigators and coordinates with other agencies and entities, both on campus and in the wider community. Grantz was again promoted to sergeant in 2016, this time heading up the department’s investigations unit. Scott brought back even more information and experience to help us make sure we’re connecting students to the right places.” “It is about making sure our students are taken care of. “It’s not all about the police work that’s actually a small percentage of what we do,” observes David Honan, formerly CUPD chief and now head of the newly formed Division of Public Safety. His time away had been instructive, though: he returned with a more nuanced understanding of the system of which CUPD is a key part. “Honestly, I missed police work,” he says. “It was a little bit more legalistic, and I got to see what happens after CUPD makes referrals, working on that side of things.”īut he opted to rejoin the department after a few years, even though it meant starting over as a patrol officer. “It was an interesting fit for me,” he says. In 2008, he left CUPD to join Cornell’s Office of the Judicial Administrator (now the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards), helping to investigate and adjudicate alleged violations of the Campus Code of Conduct. “But it’s a great way to interact with the community.”

“I biked all the time, even when, because of the weather, it was probably not a good idea,” he says with a laugh. As an alum joining CUPD, Grantz had an inherent advantage over other new officers: he knew the campus, could easily connect with students, and understood much about how the sprawling, decentralized University worked.Įarly on, he was an avid member of the bike patrol.

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