Heroin

Official mitigating conditions in play

The formal mitigating conditions (by official paragraph) that case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted vs denied. Extracted for a subset of cases; counts are cases, not percentages of everything. Read what each condition says.

Recent decided examples

• ISCR 24-00204 granted · 2025
  The applicant in this case was a 44-year-old individual seeking a security clearance for employment with a Department of Defense contractor. The Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) addressed…
• ISCR 07-15567.h1 granted · 2009
  The judge found that the applicant's personal conduct concerns, specifically his desertion from the Army, were mitigated by the time elapsed since the incident and the applicant's subsequent positive …
• ISCR 19-03550 denied · 2021
  The applicant in this case was a 27-year-old associate technical professional employed by a defense contractor since January 2019. The Department of Defense (DOD) raised security concerns under Guidel…
• ISCR 20-03224 denied · 2021
  The applicant in this case was a 33-year-old individual seeking a security clearance for a position with a defense contractor. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) issued a State…

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