Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline E · Personal Conduct
Unspecified Personal Conduct
Does unspecified personal conduct affect a security clearance?
Basis: 2,982 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
2,993
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
26%
788 granted · 2,194 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 17(c) · Minor, long ago, infrequent, or under unique circumstances | 31 | 9 |
| ¶ 17(d) · The behavior acknowledged, with counseling or other positive steps | 29 | 6 |
| ¶ 17(e) · Steps taken to reduce vulnerability to pressure | 20 | 4 |
| ¶ 17(a) · A prompt, good-faith correction made before being confronted | 8 | 7 |
| ¶ 17(b) · The omission followed advice of counsel, and full cooperation followed | 4 | 2 |
¶ 17(c) · Minor, long ago, infrequent, or under unique circumstances
- In granted cases
- 31
- In denied cases
- 9
¶ 17(d) · The behavior acknowledged, with counseling or other positive steps
- In granted cases
- 29
- In denied cases
- 6
¶ 17(e) · Steps taken to reduce vulnerability to pressure
- In granted cases
- 20
- In denied cases
- 4
¶ 17(a) · A prompt, good-faith correction made before being confronted
- In granted cases
- 8
- In denied cases
- 7
¶ 17(b) · The omission followed advice of counsel, and full cooperation followed
- In granted cases
- 4
- In denied cases
- 2
Recent decided examples
The applicant mitigated security concerns related to drug involvement, criminal conduct, and personal conduct. He demonstrated significant rehabilitation efforts, including participation in a veterans…
The case involves an applicant who submitted a security clearance application and faced allegations under Guideline I and E. The administrative judge found sufficient evidence to mitigate the concerns…
The applicant, a 70-year-old engineer, was denied security clearance due to unresolved security concerns under Guidelines E and J. He admitted to being terminated for bringing a handgun to work in Dec…
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…
Related issues under Guideline E
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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