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Intoxication at Work or on Duty

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

Does intoxication at work or on duty affect a security clearance?

Intoxication at Work or on Duty is an issue decided under Guideline G, Alcohol. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 126 hearing-level cases, and 13% of the 126 decided ended with access granted (17 granted, 109 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 126 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

126

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

13%

17 granted · 109 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.

  • ¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent

    In granted cases
    4
    In denied cases
    1

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01051Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 33-year-old systems engineer employed by a defense contractor since 2015. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citin…

  • ISCR Case No. 16-02879.h1Granted2018

    The judge granted the applicant's security clearance, finding that the applicant had a history of alcohol abuse but had taken significant steps towards rehabilitation. The applicant demonstrated absti…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00223Denied2026

    The case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who has a history of alcohol dependency and related incidents. The applicant admitted to several allegations regarding past treatment for alco…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00844Denied2026

    Applicant, a pro se behavioral health technician, was denied a clearance after the judge found security concerns under Guidelines I, G, H, and E. The record showed longstanding suicidal ideation, two …

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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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