Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline G · Alcohol
DUI / DWI (alcohol-incident dimension)
Does dui / dwi (alcohol-incident dimension) affect a security clearance?
Basis: 1,599 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
1,603
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
28%
454 granted · 1,145 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 | 162 | 35 |
| ¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent | 155 | 34 |
| ¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress | 101 | 12 |
| ¶ 23(d) · Treatment and aftercare completed, with abstinence established | 48 | 5 |
¶ 23(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established
- In granted cases
- 162
- In denied cases
- 35
¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent
- In granted cases
- 155
- In denied cases
- 34
¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress
- In granted cases
- 101
- In denied cases
- 12
¶ 23(d) · Treatment and aftercare completed, with abstinence established
- In granted cases
- 48
- In denied cases
- 5
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- abstinence period documented · credited in 4 granted cases
- rehabilitation evidence · credited in 4 granted cases
- acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 3 granted cases
- no subsequent offenses · credited in 1 granted case
- substance treatment completed · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
Applicant, a longtime cleared defense contractor employee and former Army civilian, faced SOR allegations under Guidelines G and J for three DUI incidents in 2004, 2007, and 2020. He admitted the alle…
Applicant, a defense contractor employee, was granted a clearance under Guideline G. The SOR alleged long term excessive alcohol use, current vodka consumption, two alcohol related arrests in 2008 and…
The case involves security concerns under multiple guidelines, including criminal conduct, alcohol consumption, personal conduct, foreign influence, and financial considerations. The applicant admitte…
The applicant's security clearance was denied due to failure to mitigate concerns related to drug involvement, substance misuse, criminal conduct, and personal conduct. The applicant admitted to some …
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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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