Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline G · Alcohol
Unspecified Alcohol Incident
Does unspecified alcohol incident affect a security clearance?
Basis: 995 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
1,001
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
31%
312 granted · 683 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 23(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established | 66 | 11 |
| ¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent | 52 | 11 |
| ¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress | 52 | 13 |
| ¶ 23(d) · Treatment and aftercare completed, with abstinence established | 20 | 3 |
¶ 23(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established
- In granted cases
- 66
- In denied cases
- 11
¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent
- In granted cases
- 52
- In denied cases
- 11
¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress
- In granted cases
- 52
- In denied cases
- 13
¶ 23(d) · Treatment and aftercare completed, with abstinence established
- In granted cases
- 20
- In denied cases
- 3
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- abstinence period documented · credited in 6 granted cases
- rehabilitation evidence · credited in 5 granted cases
- aa or na attendance · credited in 2 granted cases
- no subsequent offenses · credited in 2 granted cases
- acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
Applicant, a defense contractor manager with prior Army service, faced SOR allegations under Guidelines J, I, G, E, and D arising from multiple alcohol-related arrests, a cocaine incident, domestic vi…
The applicant in this case was a 46-year-old defense contractor manager who sought national security eligibility after previously holding a security clearance that was revoked in 2018. The Department …
The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved security concerns related to drug involvement and criminal conduct. While the applicant mitigated concerns under personal conduct and al…
The case involves an applicant seeking a security clearance who faced allegations under multiple guidelines, including alcohol consumption, drug involvement, criminal conduct, and personal conduct. Th…
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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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