Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline E · Personal Conduct
Violation of a Written Commitment
What the decided record shows for this issue, computed from public DOHA hearing-level decisions. Descriptive history, never a prediction.
Decided cases
44
verified hearing-level decisions
Granted
9%
4 granted · 40 denied or revoked
What judges credited in granted cases
Specific circumstances the judge expressly credited, among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 12-12001.h1 granted · 2013The judge found that the applicant mitigated the personal conduct concerns arising from a breach of his employment agreement with his former employer. This incident was characterized as a minor lapse …
- ISCR 14-04887.h1 granted · 2016The judge found that the applicant's personal conduct did not raise security concerns. The applicant's past drug use was deemed infrequent and unlikely to recur, and he demonstrated a commitment to ab…
- ISCR 06-26304 denied · 2008The applicant in this case was a 34-year-old senior security clearance adjudicator employed by a defense contractor since October 2005. She sought to retain her security clearance, which she had held …
- ISCR 19-00184 denied · 2020sensitive personnel information but also demonstrated a pattern of poor judgment leading to significant operational failures at his previous job. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reason…
Related issues under Guideline E
- Falsification of Security Clearance Application · 3,072 cases
- Unspecified Personal Conduct · 2,932 cases
- Omission / Failure to Disclose on Security Form · 2,673 cases
- Lack of Candor in Interview / Investigation · 1,574 cases
- Questionable Judgment (general) · 1,421 cases
- Workplace Rules Violation · 758 cases
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