Skip to content
CASE
← The Issue Encyclopedia

Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline J · Criminal Conduct

Multiple Arrests / Cumulative Record

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

Does multiple arrests / cumulative record affect a security clearance?

Multiple Arrests / Cumulative Record is an issue decided under Guideline J, Criminal Conduct. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 128 hearing-level cases, and 17% of the 128 decided ended with access granted (22 granted, 106 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 128 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

More questions people ask the record

Decided cases

128

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

17%

22 granted · 106 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.

  • ¶ 32(a) · So much time has passed, or the circumstances were so unusual

    In granted cases
    17
    In denied cases
    5

  • ¶ 32(d) · Successful rehabilitation shown

    In granted cases
    11
    In denied cases
    2

  • ¶ 32(c) · No reliable evidence that the person committed the offense

    In granted cases
    6
    In denied cases
    0

Circumstances credited in granted cases

The specific circumstances the judge expressly credited among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted.
  • no subsequent offenses · credited in 5 granted cases
  • rehabilitation evidence · credited in 5 granted cases
  • passage of time · credited in 2 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00062Granted2026

    The applicant in this case was a 44-year-old unmanned aerial systems instructor employed by a defense contractor, who previously served in the U.S. Navy. The Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DO…

  • ISCR Case No. 21-02828Granted2022

    The applicant, a 38-year-old single mother of three, sought eligibility for a public trust position after a history of criminal conduct and substance misuse. The Statement of Reasons (SOR) cited conce…

  • ISCR Case No. 26-00013Denied2026

    The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved security concerns related to drug involvement and criminal conduct. While the applicant mitigated concerns under personal conduct and al…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01413Denied2026

    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 …

See all 128 decisions on this issue

Related issues under Guideline J

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.

Where to go from here

Get help with my case

Send us your question, or the Statement of Reasons you received. No charge, and a CASE analyst reads it. Usually five to ten business days.

Ask a question →

I do this for clients

Rank every decision by how closely it matches a matter, see how the assigned judge has ruled, and keep it together with cited exports.

For attorneys and firms →

Decided public cases: descriptive, never a prediction.