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Unspecified Criminal Conduct

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

Does unspecified criminal conduct affect a security clearance?

Unspecified Criminal Conduct is an issue decided under Guideline J, Criminal Conduct. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 2,130 hearing-level cases, and 22% of the 2,127 decided ended with access granted (475 granted, 1,652 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 2,127 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

2,130

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

22%

475 granted · 1,652 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
    125
    In denied cases
    68

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

    In granted cases
    80
    In denied cases
    35

  • ¶ 32(d) · Successful rehabilitation shown

    In granted cases
    80
    In denied cases
    37

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

    In granted cases
    49
    In denied cases
    17

Circumstances credited in granted cases

The specific circumstances the judge expressly credited among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted.
  • rehabilitation evidence · credited in 23 granted cases
  • no subsequent offenses · credited in 10 granted cases
  • acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 9 granted cases
  • passage of time · credited in 7 granted cases
  • abstinence period documented · credited in 2 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00354Granted2026

    The applicant mitigated security concerns related to drug involvement, criminal conduct, and personal conduct. He demonstrated significant rehabilitation efforts, including participation in a veterans…

  • ISCR Case No. 24-01036Granted2026

    Applicant, a 28 year old engineer, admitted marijuana use from 2016 to 2023 and cocaine use from 2018 to 2022, including marijuana use after filing his first SCA. He also disclosed the conduct during …

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01419Denied2026

    The case involves security concerns under multiple guidelines, including criminal conduct, alcohol consumption, personal conduct, foreign influence, and financial considerations. The applicant admitte…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01194Denied2026

    The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved security concerns under Guidelines D, J, and E. The allegations included felony sexual assault on a minor, multiple criminal conduct cha…

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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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