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Probation or Court Order Violation

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

Does probation or court order violation affect a security clearance?

Probation or Court Order Violation is an issue decided under Guideline J, Criminal Conduct. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 167 hearing-level cases, and 19% of the 167 decided ended with access granted (32 granted, 135 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 167 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

167

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

19%

32 granted · 135 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
    14
    In denied cases
    4

  • ¶ 32(d) · Successful rehabilitation shown

    In granted cases
    13
    In denied cases
    2

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

    In granted cases
    10
    In denied cases
    2

  • ¶ 32(b) · The person acted under pressure that is unlikely to recur

    In granted cases
    4
    In denied cases
    2

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 3 granted cases
  • rehabilitation evidence · credited in 3 granted cases
  • passage of time · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 24-00204Granted2025

    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 Case No. 20-00347Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 31-year-old employee of a defense contractor, seeking a security clearance after previously holding one that had been suspended due to various legal issues. The Statem…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00933Denied2026

    Applicant, a defense contractor and former Marine reservist, faced allegations under Guidelines E, G, H, and J based on a long history of alcohol related incidents, DUI convictions, drug use, criminal…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00909Denied2026

    In this written-record ISCR case, the applicant, a first-time clearance seeker and pro se, faced Guidelines H, E, and J allegations arising from longstanding misuse of hydrocodone and oxycodone, multi…

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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.

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