Here is the scoop. while serving on jury duty, I had to check my weapon every day for 8 weeks.
1) you usally can't get a deputy to check your weapon untill 8:00 am. the security people at the metal detectors can't let you pass unless there is a deputy with you.
2) you will have to walk down the hall to the lock up room and have your pistol logged in to the log book and then lock your gun up in the lock box.You get to keep the key with you untill you get your gun back at the end of you visit. I would say it is about 10" w x 14"d x 6"h so it should fit any handgun you might have.
3) then they have you walk back to the metal detector and walk thru it. thats all there is to it.
4) When you are ready to leave just go up to the desk up front by the metal detectors at the front door and tell the deputy that you need to retreive your weapon.
The deputies are all nice and never gave me a hard time at all. No questions or comments from them about why I needed to carry. Very professional all the way.
Funny side story: They tell you that you need to be upstairs on the 7th floor (for jury duty) by 8:00am, but I can't get a deputy untill 8:00am so I am usually 10 minutes late every day. Not a problem while I was being selected for jury duty, but when I got picked for jury duty you have to be checked in on the 7th floor by 8:00am and in your set in the jury's box by 8:15. Well the fist time I was late the judge let me slide with a warning. The second time the judge, in front of the whole courtroom started to leture me and give me a good dressing down. After she was done 10 minutes later she then asked me if this was going to happen tomorrow. I said yes it probly would.
She looked at me like I was a complete idiot. She asked me why I would be late, I told her I had to check my weapon down stairs and that a deputy isan't avaible untill 8:00am and thats why I am late. so told me to leave my gun a home or locked in my car. I asked her if she would assign a deputy to escort me from my car to the courthouse every morning? she said no, I told her that I carry for defence of myself and family and I would not be accepting her suggestion to leave it at home or in the car.She then left the courtroom for several minutes and then returned. She told me that a deputy would be at the front door at 7:45 am to get me and log in my gun. I said thank you. What a bitch she was. but it turned out good in the end