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    Contra Costa County Clerk

    4.6 (53 reviews)
    Open 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

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    Recorders office
    Shelli H.

    It takes months maybe longer to plan a large expensive wedding. What if you go ahead and do the formal stuff so as life changes your paperwork is in order and then later down the line you throw that big event? This is exactly the decision my son and his now wife made. They made the appointment online less than 1 week before. The rooms they offer and give you a choice of are really quite nice. Stained glass windows and flowers. Very private and larger than I expected. I believe the maximum people for the ceremony is 15 guests. We had 11 and we're not too close together at all. The woman who married them. She was fantastic! You could feel her genuine happiness for them and was great with the baby and let her be part of the ceremony. Also my daughter n laws great grandma is 103 years old and so of course they wanted her to sign as a witness. Being 103 and signing on a tiny line is hard. It took 3 reprints to get it right. And never did she lose patience. They whole thing was heartfelt and full of love. Didn't expect all that at a courthouse wedding!! Had I expected it I would not have tried to wear mascara. Lol Today there is one more Mrs. H! Which is great because I always totally screwed up spelling her maiden name! ;)

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    Lily S.

    Thank you Lisa S. and the other ladies at the recorders office for making my visit so smooth and pleasant. Upon arriving at the Contra Costa County Clerk's office, I pull into their parking lot (free btw) and there's a sign outside indicating "Start Here" in front of a window to the side of the double doors. A pleasant lady greets me and ask what I needed. She tells me to come inside to enter my request on one of their computers. The computer system is easy to navigate. Once I submitted my request online, I get a ticket with a number. I only waited about 5 minutes before my number was called, and I go to the appropriate window, where I met Lisa S. She asked for my ID, and when she noticed that my birthday had just passed, she wishes me a happy belated birthday. I pay for the documents and she wishes me a nice weekend as I leave. I've never met such a pleasant staff at any government office before. The DMV could take some lessons from this office. My only qualm is having to use a shared computer that's used by many others. They have a couple of hand sanitizer stations in the waiting area though.

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    Just went down there this morning, the team there could not have been more helpful and more friendly, thank you for what you do.

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    Dropped off ballots. No problem. Arrived at 4:29 and was able to run in and put my ballot in a box inside.

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    This is the worst place ever to get you wedding ceremony. Never go there if you don't want to ruin your wedding day!!!!

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    Contra Costa County Treasurer-Tax Collector

    1.9(7 reviews)
    0.2 mi

    The worst. Staff is incompetent and rude. The old lady who works in the tax office was rude and cut…read moreme off the entire phone call when I was trying to ask questions. Apparently I was bothering her with all my questions and she felt like she did not want to answer any more questions so she hung the phone up in my face. I called back and asked why she did that and she lied and said she doesn't know who hung the phone up in my face...she is the only old white lady who works in her position. Then she hung up in my face again and I ended up speaking to another older man who was just as rude and bothered that he had to do his job. He asked why I was calling and in the middle of me explaining he started loudly talking over me and I had to scream at him to get him to stop! It was insane! They also lied about sending me a letter that I never received and said if the post office lost it or put it in the wrong mailbox then oh well it's not their fault it's my fault. Everyone in this office needs to be fired but it sounds like they are either close to retiring or ending their jobs anyways! Oh yeah they also said they had no manager when I first asked and when I questioned this they changed their mind and said oh actually we do but they aren't here. Refused to give me their managers office number too, like I won't physically go down to their office myself. It's sad that nothing will be done about this and all the upset reviews and clients that have been complaining for years will never receive any justice or apology. If you hate your job, leave. Don't take it out on everyone else.

    The staff is helpful... but it doesn't change how I feel about the organization. Cinzia, Reno, and…read moreI go to pay taxes to the man in person twice a year. The building is super cool. Older with the HUGE hallways. Old bank vault parked in the vestibule. Stairs you could drive a double wide up.

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    Contra Costa County Human Resources Department

    Contra Costa County Human Resources Department

    3.6(25 reviews)
    0.3 mi

    It was a bit difficult when they first told me my benefits would not be approved and I would have…read moreto reapply. However when they called back to complete the interview after speaking with her supervisor I felt a little better. Thank you for all that you do, you didn't have to but you truly made a difference in my life and proved (again, didn't have to) that you cared.

    Stopped by and just enough time for the very last 21 minutes before closing…read more The suggestion was to wait over for a 15 minutes duration to buy it. This was a rare opportunity to progress and an intense 30 minutes before curtain to recover my birth certificates. I was so pleased that I could get out of there with some new tips! 45 miles riding my bicycle prior to entering into the building with my navigational skills. On my I-Phone she required me to make a wrong turn and she failed to give the right directions it was a blessing! I finally made a wrong left turn one block before Castro I was so done. My makeup looked okay that everyone was avoiding me because I wasn't trying that hard to be on your team or whatever and miss out! Surely I thought it was just a slice of her negativity and I would be on my way. How positively fitting of her to help me find my record because I was a fighter! The new 21St Century official birth certificates is kind of a legacy. My bus driver told me I would get in there okay. My bus driver knew I live in a world of manipulation and lies and to someone nice would be there to help serve me. It was unkind of her to hold back the right directions to kind of know how it works to how nervous I was to stop and ask strangers if this was it? Shape shifting is a vampire skill to hone over one's mind and no way for children who were adopted to searching for their biological mothers and fathers everywhere! There are a lot of people that want to find the truth to know their real birth mothers! Sorry isn't enough if you were adopted and you don't know who your biological mother or father really is! God makes the rules!I know my two adopted daughters are looking for their real birth mother; me'! "Sierradawn L." Seriously though I called the office when I was ready to come by to get my birth certificates from highly qualified receptionists that wanted to help serve me. I also inquired about a death certificate for my X-husband and according to the receptionist it's a search and rescue mission and only my daughter can request her father's death certificate if she's interested in seeing it. The conventional , beautiful 21St Century new birth certificates look like a Star'! Golden State materials! Just took my bus and made it in on time to win their hearts. Known by only one way the parking lot needs to install a bicycle rack for riders and cyclists. Be honest nobody needs to get hurt what good would that do? It's nobody's fault and everybody meant well and I just got to say sorry but I thought someone said her son's birth certificates cost her like $44? Okay why did I owe $76 for two birth certificates anybody out there? I prefer to keep a low profile and the justice system and the new me searching for honest, friendly people that don't misdirect and misinform running the clock against me to minimize my strategy to find the building coming up. By 4:30PM and a world of wrong directions and random questions about what I see to personalize my danger on the road by bike and missed it. To compensate for all the unnecessary noise about what happened or if I was a confused person with no relevance. She wanted to tell me to turn left to cover the entire street so that happened on my first day so I don't trust her. After taking my left turn left only one block in slow mo with people staring at me and walking in slo motion for a near problem- This bus driver was so disappointed that I couldn't get to my building after guessing in slow motion about rising left turns on wrong left blocks by someone lying to me that knows how to get there. Thank God I didn't have to go down every left turn to keep at it. Odds are big, strong women are definitely about riding bicycles and you can't deny it!

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    Social Security Administration

    Social Security Administration

    2.8(20 reviews)
    5.4 mi

    TLDR: You are required to set up appointments for all visits now…read more After attempting to apply online (which didn't work) I happened to be in the area for the DMV so I figured I'd walk over as it's not stated anywhere online that you must have an appointment. When you get there the loud speaker announcement states they have appointments available within 5 days. I almost laughed because it's wildly inaccurate. I'd booked an appointment a few days before for the first one available - almost 3 weeks out. Even if you go by business days, it's not close to being accurate. Currently they'll let you sign in, get a number, wait for 30 minutes, then call your number, and at your window you'll be told to make an appointment and they'll refuse to help you further. It's absolutely bonkers and I've never seen anything like it. After I was told I could wait an additional 3-4 hours for the possibility of speaking with someone, I asked if like the DMV they could text me when someone can speak with me. No. No, they don't do that either. I left. I will say I ended up googling and found a great thread that talked about the different processes people have used to get into their non-working SSA accounts. I tried a few of them and was finally able to log in via IDme on an incognito window so I could download a statement of my account, which solved about half of what I needed. Overall, it was a pretty awful and extremely inefficient experience all around. Definitely would not recommend.

    You guys waste peoples time. When I came the last time to get proof of my appointment etc I was…read moretold to bring my homeland security and whatever documents, ID etc. I let them know that my resident alien card was stolen and that WAS OKAY as long as I had papers from homeland security with the number etc. I have recieved a SS card from here before and even brought my married SS Card that I had recieved from here as well. When I asked for proof of my appointment to show my job you guys blacked out my SSN for what? Come today and the Asian lady tells me at window 8 I can't take your documents sat there for how long looking at the computer and when I handed her my stuff and my OLD social security from when I was married say I can't take none of these. I need your resident card. I told her I told them it was stolen when I made the appointment I am in the process of getting my citizenship I was just told since my father was a US Citizen and served in the navy I havr to file for my citizenship. In the process of this now then the lady was like I don't know if you're going to be approved. I was llike excuse me? She said oh I'm sorry I just need the card. They should of said that to me so I could pull it up online with the number and whatever expiration date she said she needed. You had me come here to waste my time and be rude about it. I've should of known better to come here because when my mother passed away I came here to give her death certificate and the Hispanic man who called my number told me I don't need to take that from you the mortorary will send all of that to us. Okay I was there with it reporting her death. Just a waste of time here

    Contra Costa County Clerk - publicservicesgovt - Updated May 2026

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