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Workplace Sexual Misconduct

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

Does workplace sexual misconduct affect a security clearance?

Workplace Sexual Misconduct is an issue decided under Guideline D, Sexual Behavior. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 28 hearing-level cases, and 14% of the 28 decided ended with access granted (4 granted, 24 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 28 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

28

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

14%

4 granted · 24 denied or revoked

Circumstances credited in granted cases

The specific circumstances the judge expressly credited among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted.
  • significant lifestyle changes · credited in 1 granted case
  • spouse is aware and has forgiven · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 22-00381Granted2023

    The applicant in this case was a 35-year-old individual who sought a security clearance after being issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) by the Department of Defense (DOD) on April 26, 2022. The SOR ra…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-00008-RGranted2023

    The applicant in this case was a 30-year-old staff sergeant in the U.S. Army, previously serving in the Marine Corps. The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing securit…

  • ISCR Case No. 24-02453Denied2026

    The applicant in this case was a 55-year-old systems administrator who had been employed by a Department of Defense contractor since December 2022. The allegations against him arose under Guideline D …

  • ISCR Case No. 24-01087Denied2025

    The applicant in this case was a 46-year-old employee of a defense contractor seeking a security clearance. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citi…

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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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