Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline M · IT Systems
Pornography / Inappropriate Content on an Employer System
Does pornography / inappropriate content on an employer system affect a security clearance?
Basis: 63 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
63
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
22%
14 granted · 49 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 41(a) · So long ago, or so unusual, that it is unlikely to recur | 8 | 3 |
¶ 41(a) · So long ago, or so unusual, that it is unlikely to recur
- In granted cases
- 8
- In denied cases
- 3
Recent decided examples
Applicant in this case was a 51-year-old U.S. citizen who had worked overseas for various Department of Defense (DOD) contractors and held a security clearance since 1991. The Department of Defense is…
The applicant in this case was a 45-year-old information technology support specialist who sought a security clearance to work in the defense industry. The Department of Defense (DoD) issued a Stateme…
Applicant, a defense contractor IT technician, admitted viewing inappropriate material on government IT but denied doing anything improper. The judge found the sexual behavior concern under Guideline …
Applicant, a contractor employee, was denied eligibility for access to classified information. The judge found that his long history of public masturbation, workplace pornography use, sexual fantasies…
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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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