# Scattered Castles > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. The intelligence community's central database of security clearance and access determinations, maintained under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. It records who holds eligibility for access to classified information, at what level, and — critically — whether that eligibility has ever been suspended or revoked, along with any condition or waiver attached to it. Its practical significance is portability. Because every cleared employer in the community checks the same record, an adverse access determination follows the individual from job to job without any further proceeding. In unauthorized-disclosure cases this is frequently the sanction that actually lands: an entry made on a standard that requires no criminal charge, no conviction and no published reason, and which is substantially beyond judicial review. ## See also - [[How a Security Clearance Is Granted and Revoked]] — how an entry gets made - [[How a Leak Is Investigated and Prosecuted]] — the cases in which the entry is the outcome - [[Department of the Navy v. Egan]] · [[National Counterintelligence and Security Center]] · [[ODNI]] - [[Concepts Hub]]