Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline K · Handling Protected Info
Cross-Domain (Spillage) Violation
Does cross-domain (spillage) violation affect a security clearance?
Basis: 29 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
29
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
34%
10 granted · 19 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 35(a) · So long ago, so infrequent, or so unusual that it is unlikely to recur | 7 | 0 |
| ¶ 35(b) · A favorable response to counseling or remedial security training | 6 | 0 |
¶ 35(a) · So long ago, so infrequent, or so unusual that it is unlikely to recur
- In granted cases
- 7
- In denied cases
- 0
¶ 35(b) · A favorable response to counseling or remedial security training
- In granted cases
- 6
- In denied cases
- 0
Recent decided examples
The applicant in this case was a 55-year-old senior director for business development at a defense contractor, with a military background as a retired Colonel. The Defense Counterintelligence and Secu…
The judge found that the applicant had several past security violations related to handling protected information, but these incidents occurred many years ago and were mitigated by the applicant's pos…
The applicant's security clearance was denied due to failure to mitigate security concerns under Guideline E (Personal Conduct) and Guideline K (Handling Protected Information). The applicant admitted…
The applicant's security clearance was denied due to failure to mitigate concerns related to personal conduct and handling protected information. The applicant falsified a government questionnaire reg…
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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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