Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline D · Sexual Behavior

Unspecified Sexual Behavior

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

Does unspecified sexual behavior affect a security clearance?

Unspecified Sexual Behavior is an issue decided under Guideline D, Sexual Behavior. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 240 hearing-level cases, and 21% of the 240 decided ended with access granted (50 granted, 190 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 240 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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.

Official mitigating conditions cited
Condition	In granted cases	In denied cases
¶ 14(d) · Private, consensual, and discreet	8	1
¶ 14(b) · So long ago, so infrequent, or so unusual that it is unlikely to recur	6	5
¶ 14(c) · No longer a basis for coercion or pressure	6	2

¶ 14(d) · Private, consensual, and discreet
In granted cases
8
In denied cases
1
¶ 14(b) · So long ago, so infrequent, or so unusual that it is unlikely to recur
In granted cases
6
In denied cases
5
¶ 14(c) · No longer a basis for coercion or pressure
In granted cases
6
In denied cases
2

Recent decided examples

ISCR Case No. 24-00247Granted2026
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…
ISCR Case No. 22-01002Granted2024
The applicant in this case sought a security clearance and faced allegations under Guideline B (Foreign Influence), Guideline D (Sexual Behavior), and Guideline E (Personal Conduct). The Statement of …
ISCR Case No. 25-01206Denied2026
The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved security concerns under Guideline D (Sexual Behavior) and Guideline J (Criminal Conduct). The applicant admitted to paying for sex with …
ISCR Case No. 24-01919Denied2026
The applicant mitigated criminal conduct security concerns but did not mitigate sexual behavior security concerns. The government did not establish personal conduct security concerns distinct from tho…

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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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