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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 · 2013
    The 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 · 2016
    The 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 · 2008
    The 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 · 2020
    sensitive 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

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