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Association with Persons Involved in Criminal Activity

What the decided record shows for this issue, computed from public DOHA hearing-level decisions. Descriptive history, not a prediction.

Does association with persons involved in criminal activity affect a security clearance?

Association with Persons Involved in Criminal Activity is an issue decided under Guideline E, Personal Conduct. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 48 hearing-level cases, and 29% of the 48 decided ended with access granted (14 granted, 34 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 48 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

48

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

29%

14 granted · 34 denied or revoked

Official mitigating conditions cited

The formal mitigating conditions the case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted and in cases that were denied. Each is shown with its paragraph number and a plain name. Read what each condition says.

  • ¶ 17(g) · The association was unwitting or has ended

    In granted cases
    7
    In denied cases
    0

Circumstances credited in granted cases

The specific circumstances the judge expressly credited among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted.
  • severed ties to using friends · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 23-00898Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 39-year-old individual who sought a security clearance after previously disclosing a history of drug use, specifically marijuana and cocaine, in his security clearance…

  • ISCR Case No. 21-02190Granted2022

    The applicant in this case was a 29-year-old individual employed by a defense contractor since September 2021, seeking a security clearance for the first time. The Department of Defense issued a State…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-02065Denied2024

    The applicant in this case was a 34-year-old employee of a defense contractor, applying for a security clearance for the first time. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citin…

  • ISCR Case No. 20-01150Denied2021

    The applicant in this case was a 24-year-old assembler technician seeking a security clearance from the Department of Defense (DoD). The adjudicative guidelines at issue were personal conduct and drug…

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Related issues under Guideline E

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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