Humanitarian Award
Kenneth Standley
Agent, San Bernardino County Probation Department
Law enforcement is often referred to as a family and when one member is ill, the family pulls together. Such was the case for the family of San Bernardino Parole Agent Cynthia Carter, when her 23-year-old daughter Cameron was diagnosed with renal kidney failure. She was immediately given hemodialysis treatment four hours per day and three times per week.
Agent Carter had tested for over six months to become a donor and everything appeared hopeful until the very end. That is when Agent Carter was informed by UCLA doctors that she may have a medical condition and could not be the donor. Carter set out to find a suitable donor, writing letters to family, friends and co-workers asking them to be tested for Cameron.
One of those who heard the message was Parole Agent Ken Standley. He traveled a number of times to UCLA — more than 80 miles from his home — for various tests and thankfully, in the end, there was a match. A donor had been found. Cameron and Ken had their surgery on March 28, 2005. The surgery went well for both of them. The kidney worked immediately and they are both doing well today.
For literally sharing life and supporting the law enforcement family, the Golden Badge Foundation is proud to share its 2006 Humanitarian Award with Parole Agent Ken Standley.
