Despite Barack Obama’s call for a “Google for government”, our Federal court system remains pretty stingy with information. The courts’ PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) system–which charges 8 cents a page for documents–is about as 21st century as the homonymous automobile. Nevertheless, open government activists spent $600,000 obtaining records from the system, and then took advantage of a trial run of free access to download more docs and put them online. Among their findings:He found thousands of documents in which the lawyers and courts had not properly redacted personal information like Social Security numbers, a violation of the courts’ own rules. There was data on children in Washington, names of Secret Service agents, members of pension funds and more. …Federal court system to offer a trial run of free PACER access at select libraries, and then proceeded to download docs en masse and put them on the web.