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Public Intoxication

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

Does public intoxication affect a security clearance?

Public Intoxication is an issue decided under Guideline G, Alcohol. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 178 hearing-level cases, and 31% of the 178 decided ended with access granted (55 granted, 123 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 178 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

178

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

31%

55 granted · 123 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
    16
    In denied cases
    1

  • ¶ 23(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established

    In granted cases
    16
    In denied cases
    0

  • ¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress

    In granted cases
    11
    In denied cases
    0

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. 24-01270Granted2025

    the overall population of individuals with alcohol use disorder. The applicant in this case was a 41-year-old business process consultant employed by a defense contractor, who faced security concern…

  • 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. 25-00539Denied2026

    The case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who faced allegations under Guidelines I and G. The applicant admitted to some allegations related to alcohol consumption but denied others, p…

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Related issues under Guideline G

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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