Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline G · Alcohol
Alcohol-Related Arrest (non-DUI)
Does alcohol-related arrest (non-dui) affect a security clearance?
Basis: 286 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
286
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
28%
80 granted · 206 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 23(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established | 23 | 5 |
| ¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent | 19 | 5 |
| ¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress | 17 | 1 |
| ¶ 23(d) · Treatment and aftercare completed, with abstinence established | 4 | 1 |
¶ 23(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established
- In granted cases
- 23
- In denied cases
- 5
¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent
- In granted cases
- 19
- In denied cases
- 5
¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress
- In granted cases
- 17
- In denied cases
- 1
¶ 23(d) · Treatment and aftercare completed, with abstinence established
- In granted cases
- 4
- In denied cases
- 1
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- abstinence period documented · credited in 1 granted case
- acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
Applicant, a 25-year-old defense contractor employee, was granted eligibility for a security clearance after the judge found he mitigated Guideline G and Guideline J concerns. The SOR alleged two alco…
The applicant in this case was a 44-year-old unmanned aerial systems instructor employed by a defense contractor, who previously served in the U.S. Navy. The Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DO…
Applicant, a 39-year-old defense contractor employee, sought a clearance after SOR allegations under Guidelines G, J, and E. He admitted an alcohol-related 2013 arrest and conviction that was later ex…
Applicant, 44, worked for a defense contractor and sought a clearance on the written record. The Judge found she had longstanding severe alcohol misuse, multiple detox admissions, court ordered counse…
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How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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