Santa Clara

[soul]

The email they sent out confirms there are indeed 160/140/160 slots open on the 12th, 15th, and 19th, respectively.

I'm taking a guess that the minute-by-minute scheduling may be a technical limitation of the Permitium software, e.g., you can't have two appointments scheduled at the same exact time. In their email they clarify you should come to the appointment at the nearest half-hour mark.

I just got open slot for 12th April, like 10mins ago so grabbed it. My earlier one was in November.

[MuckTheGhost]

Getting the bad order number also. Website must be struggling?or crashed

[FuryTomic]

Getting the bad order number also. Website must be struggling?or crashed

Try and open the webpage in a new browser. Was able to log in again just now

Looks like there's more openings for Thursdays and Sundays up to 4/20..

[loraus]

Looks like they cleaned up their act. The web site looks more realistic. Several slots open now through out instead of a hundred. Changed mine from August to mid April , there were 5 4 slots open about 45 minutes apart if memory s were serves.

[hdm]

Work references

Do we know if Santa Clara will ask for work references and/or speak with co-workers?

Thanks!

[Peahi2]

I was originally slotted for December initial interview but I signed up for one of those clinic slots and so I will go in next week. I wonder how it?s gonna be if they are trying to achieve more volume of applications.

[9or45man]

So since we are able to change time slots will this still be at 55 Younger? If anyone knows, please confirm.

[so314]

I was originally slotted for December initial interview but I signed up for one of those clinic slots and so I will go in next week. I wonder how it?s gonna be if they are trying to achieve more volume of applications.

Here are my predictions based off what I've seen so far. I don't have any inside info other than being further along in the application process myself, so take these with a grain of salt.

* Interviews will likely be completed in a timely manner. Based off the scheduling, it seems they have 5-10 people interviewing at once. Interviews only last a couple of minutes anyways unless you have something in your background that you need to elaborate more on.
* There will probably be some delay between the initial interview and interview approval. People are saying that the interviewers are volunteers, so the application may need to go through an approval flow from a higher-up. I'm not sure if they do their initial background check in this stage--if so, probably some more delays.
* There will be major delays doing the psych eval. They outsource this to a 3rd party who also handles psych evals for San Francisco as well as other LE agencies. Unless they add additional providers or the 3rd party significantly ramps up their processing volume, there will likely be several weeks or months of delay here. I think their current capacity is a dozen or so people a week.
* Most people are reporting that LiveScan only takes a week or two now, so likely not to cause much delay.
* There are 10 approved training providers so far. I expect at least some of them will be able to ramp up if the demand increased.

[NeilDown]

This is great!
Even if there are further delays, I moved from Dec 7th to April 19th.

I think, they figured there is a fixed backlog of us Calguns members in the county. They'll just surge us with some additional staff and then they'll be able to maintain with less staff doing few per month or so on a recurring basis.

We'll take progress of any kind.

[pythonfan]

I'm curious how they would react to this scenario.

I have a glock 23 in .40
I have a factoy glock 19 upper and a factory .357 sig barrel

Could I list the glock 23 as a .40 cal/.357 sig/9x19 and still have two slots for other pistols?

[jcagpn]

This whole thing went from being a backyard jam session to a full-blown concert. Has anyone had issues with parking at the SCSO location? Where might those, that have been there, suggest?

[so314]

This whole thing went from being a backyard jam session to a full-blown concert. Has anyone had issues with parking at the SCSO location? Where might those, that have been there, suggest?

The visitor parking was completely full when I pulled in for my appt at 9am. There is metered street parking nearby on N San Pedro St. which was completely empty.

[scootle]

The visitor parking was completely full when I pulled in for my appt at 9am. There is metered street parking nearby on N San Pedro St. which was completely empty.

If the visitor lot is full, your only real choice is metered parking on the street or the courthouse parking lot a couple blocks away (paid, iirc). Be advised they are VERY VERY VERY aggressive with parking enforcement in this area (surprise!), so keep that in mind.

[scootle]

I'm curious how they would react to this scenario.

I have a glock 23 in .40
I have a factoy glock 19 upper and a factory .357 sig barrel

Could I list the glock 23 as a .40 cal/.357 sig/9x19 and still have two slots for other pistols?

You're probably overthinking this..... the application lets you list 3 discrete firearm serial numbers. Simple as that.

[haw1144]

Has anyone heard back "within a week" after they've had their interview?

I had mine last Tuesday, so it's been a week... been refreshing my email and Permitium with no updates yet. I may wait another day and give them a call to see whats up.