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If it were a privilege, like getting a pardon from the Governor, then there'd be no route to appeal the denial. When the Sheriff revokes your permit, you can appeal to the Court of Common Pleas and assert your rights, and the burden shifts to the Sheriff to prove that you are not entitled anymore. Regardless of the inadequate and conclusory reasons provided on the revocation letter, the Sheriff is required to provide specific disqualifying facts and law to the Court, or he loses.
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If you have a driver's license, or a law license, or any other license issued by the Commonwealth, in order to have it revoked there has to be a hearing of some sort. That's called "Due Process" - presumed innocent until found guilty.
In the case of an LTCF, however, the sheriff can revoke it (arbitrarily, as we have seen in some cases) and then the individual has to fight, at their own expense, to get it unrevoked. Call it what you want, but it certainly doesn't sound like "Due Process" to me - it sounds more like presumed guilty until found innocent.