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Falsification of Non-Security Records

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

Does falsification of non-security records affect a security clearance?

Falsification of Non-Security Records is an issue decided under Guideline E, Personal Conduct. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 104 hearing-level cases, and 11% of the 104 decided ended with access granted (11 granted, 93 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 104 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

104

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

11%

11 granted · 93 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(c) · Minor, long ago, infrequent, or under unique circumstances

    In granted cases
    5
    In denied cases
    3

Circumstances credited in granted cases

The specific circumstances the judge expressly credited among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted.
  • acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 24-00119Granted2025

    The applicant in this case was a 39-year-old employee of a Defense contractor who had held a security clearance for 17 years. The allegations against her, outlined in the Statement of Reasons (SOR), w…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-02659Granted2025

    The applicant in this case was a 38-year-old individual who had worked primarily for various Department of Defense (DOD) contractors since 2009. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00238Denied2026

    Applicant, a field service engineer, was denied a security clearance under Guideline E after his employer concluded he routinely mischarged time and overstated work hours. He admitted some inaccurate …

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01091Denied2026

    Applicant, a pro se Army linguist with prior honorable military service and a current top secret clearance, was denied eligibility under Guideline E. The judge found he was terminated from W and L/E, …

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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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