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Underage Drinking

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

Does underage drinking affect a security clearance?

Underage Drinking is an issue decided under Guideline G, Alcohol. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 68 hearing-level cases, and 38% of the 68 decided ended with access granted (26 granted, 42 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 68 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

68

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

38%

26 granted · 42 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(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established

    In granted cases
    7
    In denied cases
    0

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

    In granted cases
    5
    In denied cases
    0

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01563Granted2026

    This case involves security concerns regarding the applicant's alcohol consumption, drug involvement, psychological conditions, and personal conduct. The applicant admitted to several allegations rela…

  • 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. 23-01608Denied2024

    The applicant in this case was a 48-year-old individual seeking a public trust position with the Department of Defense. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency issued a Statement of Reason…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-00862Denied2024

    The applicant in this case was a 32-year-old married man with two children, seeking a security clearance for his position as a research lab mechanic with a government contractor. The Defense Office of…

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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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