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For the third time, freshman lawmakers in the Wyoming House on Monday killed a bill that would have helped the state better evaluate child welfare and juvenile justice programs.

The Department of Family Services and longer-serving legislators want the agency to synthesize data from the multiple systems that serve the state’s families and children. Doing so would allow the agency to better support struggling families before they end up requiring court-ordered interventions, department officials say, but it requires a change to confidentiality statutes.

New House members, however, have stopped the measure over concerns about government overreach in

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