photo by: Mike Yoder

Myrone Grady, a former lieutenant from the Lawrence Police Department, is pictured in October 2025 shortly after his retirement.

A retired Lawrence police officer who was recently convicted of disorderly conduct in Shawnee County has been reprimanded by the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training but has not lost his certification to be a law enforcement officer in the state.

Former Lt. Myrone Grady received the news Wednesday and said he felt “relief” that no action beyond a reprimand was taken. He told the Journal-World Thursday that he “never expected to be unscathed” since he had been charged with a crime — misdemeanor battery, which was eventually pleaded down to disorderly conduct — but he was pleased with the outcome.

“If I want, I can resume my law enforcement career,” said Grady, who is known around Lawrence as “OG,” short for Officer Grady. He doesn’t plan on being a cop again, but having the option to do so is “satisfying.”

“I was a good police officer,” he added — an assessment shared my many in the community who rallied around him at court dates and credited him for positively influencing their lives in his nearly 25-year career as a police officer, school resource officer and the Lawrence Police Department’s first executive officer for diversity and community engagement.

The criminal case stemmed from a Jan. 27, 2025, incident in a Topeka high school gym and involved a man in his mid-60s who was the father of a longtime family friend — a friendship that had soured, as the Journal-World reported. Grady, 52, claimed the older man was angry and seemed likely to be violent so he reacted in self-defense. The judge, however, denied Grady’s request for immunity from prosecution after watching video of the incident, and the case would have proceeded to trial but for Grady’s guilty plea last month to disorderly conduct. The man was not injured during the encounter.

Grady wrapped up his career with LPD months before the plea — in September 2025, when he accepted an early-retirement offer from the City of Lawrence.

The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training, or CPOST as it’s known, is the state agency responsible for certifying law enforcement officers in Kansas. The agency investigates alleged misconduct by officers and issues findings, including reprimands and, in more serious cases, revocation of certification. The paperwork documenting Grady’s reprimand was not listed on the agency’s database of actions as of Thursday afternoon.