Security Clearance news
Alcohol Consumption and Impacts on Clearance Eligibility
The total number of Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) security clearance denials involving alcohol consumption went down from 82 in 2022 to 69 in 2023. In most cases, the use of alcohol concerns was added in with other adjudicative guidelines such as criminal conduct or illegal drug use. However, on
Clearance Applicants and Security Freezes on Credit Reports
In 2018, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law, enabling those undergoing background investigations to keep a credit report security freeze in place without any impact to completion of the investigation. At the time, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) provided guidance to all Federal agencies
I had something like this happend to me. Once you submit the dismissal, they are “supposed” to re-adjudicate. Sometimes they need to be pushed though. There is really no need…
Yes thats what I was hoping to happen. The court date was in August and after the judge denied/dismissed due to no evidence I was so happy to finally get…
I had to have my attorney reachout to CIA IG to force them to reinstate my clearance. I doubt DHS is that much of a pain in the ass.
Maybe not as bad as CIA, but DHS is pretty bad right now… what blows me is most DHS positions don’t require cleared work so instead of reassigning someone to…