Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline D · Sexual Behavior
Prostitution or Solicitation
Does prostitution or solicitation affect a security clearance?
Basis: 92 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
92
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
24%
22 granted · 70 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 14(b) · So long ago, so infrequent, or so unusual that it is unlikely to recur | 10 | 4 |
| ¶ 14(c) · No longer a basis for coercion or pressure | 8 | 4 |
| ¶ 14(d) · Private, consensual, and discreet | 8 | 3 |
¶ 14(b) · So long ago, so infrequent, or so unusual that it is unlikely to recur
- In granted cases
- 10
- In denied cases
- 4
¶ 14(c) · No longer a basis for coercion or pressure
- In granted cases
- 8
- In denied cases
- 4
¶ 14(d) · Private, consensual, and discreet
- In granted cases
- 8
- In denied cases
- 3
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- evidence of reform and rehabilitation · credited in 1 granted case
- no longer serves as a basis for blackmail · credited in 1 granted case
- passage of time without recurrence of similar conduct · credited in 1 granted case
- rehabilitation · credited in 1 granted case
- successful rehabilitation · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
49-year-old lead voice engineer, the applicant sought to obtain or retain a security clearance in connection with his work for a defense contractor. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency…
The applicant in this case was a 38-year-old employee of a defense contractor who had been employed since 2014. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing security concerns u…
The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved security concerns under Guideline D (Sexual Behavior) and Guideline J (Criminal Conduct). The applicant admitted to paying for sex with …
The applicant mitigated criminal conduct security concerns but did not mitigate sexual behavior security concerns. The government did not establish personal conduct security concerns distinct from tho…
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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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