TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Room is running out for names on the memorial honoring Kansas law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, so it will soon be expanded.

Gov. Jeff Colyer and Attorney General Derek Schmidt were among those announcing expansion plans on Monday, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. The project is expected to cost $500,000, funded with private donations. Organizers have already raised about $425,000.

The memorial is outside the Kansas Statehouse. It includes the names of 281 officers, with room for 39 more. Plans call for adding a second concentric ring of memorial markers outside the existing monument so that additional names can be added in future years.

Three more names will be added from this year. Wyandotte County deputies Patrick Rohrer and Theresa Sue King were shot and killed in June while transporting a prisoner. Sedgwick County Deputy Robert Kenneth Kunze III was fatally shot while responding to a suspicious person call in September.

“Our collective hearts cringe at the thought of making more room for the names of officers killed in the line of duty,” Kansas Highway Patrol Superintendent Mark Bruce said. “But by doing so, we pledge to permanently recognize the magnitude of the price they paid.”

The memorial was dedicated in 1987 and includes the names of officers who have died in the line of duty since 1866. The first name on the list was Ogden City Marshal Felix A. Boller, who was shot and killed after observing a group of soldiers that had entered a private home in the town.

In addition to the expansion of the memorial, the state launched a website that enables users to browse through the names on the memorial and read the biographies of those whose names are etched in its stone.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A group of Kansas residents is pushing for a Kansas City suburb to release records regarding how a 911 call to check on a teenager’s welfare ended with an officer fatally shooting the teen.

The city of Overland Park has denied most of the records requests by Johnson County citizens group JOCO United over the January shooting of 17-year-old John Albers, the Kansas City Star reported.

The demand for records comes after authorities released dashcam video of the encounter in which an officer fired 13 times into a minivan that Albers was backing out of his family’s garage. Officers were called to Albers’ home after receiving a report that he appeared to be suicidal.

JOCO United argues that the video didn’t answer questions about why the use of lethal force was needed.

The group said that the city has refused to release a report written by the officer who shot Albers, an investigative file compiled by a team that reviewed the officer’s actions and the Overland Park Police Department’s internal review of the shooting.

The Overland Park Police Department doesn’t release the names of officers involved in shootings. But a federal lawsuit filed in April by Albers’ mother, Sheila Albers, identified the officer as Clayton Jenison.

Mark Schmid, a JOCO United member, said the public is forced to rely on Johnson County district attorney Steve Howe’s conclusion that the shooting was justified. Howe announced in February that the officer reasonably feared for his life.

“The investigative records should be produced to establish the truth of what Howe presented,” Schmid said.

Overland Park’s attorney, Mike Seck, declined to comment while litigation is pending.

Kansas’ public records law allows officials to keep many types of law enforcement records confidential. Kansas law guards the privacy of officers involved in shootings and doesn’t require the state to eventually name them as a matter of public record.

The Overland Park Police Department did announce that the officer who shot Albers resigned for personal reasons after the shooting.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say they have located and recovered 18 missing children who ran away from foster homes in Kansas.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Tuesday that the joint effort last week to find runaways from the Kansas Foster Care Program involved more than 100 federal, state and local law enforcement officers.

It focused on Sedgwick, Johnson and Wyandotte counties although the effort ultimately spanned several other Kansas counties and generated leads forwarded to other states.

Operation Hope was led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, the Office of Inspector General and Office of Investigations.

The KBI says law enforcement officials sought to ensure the well-being of the foster children and to identify waste, fraud and abuse occurring within the state’s foster care program.