Steven Munoz, who graduated from The Citadel in South Carolina in 2011, has been at the State Department since late January. He is now the Assistant Chief of Visits in the Office of the Chief of Protocol. While a student at The Citadel, Munoz was accused by five underclassmen of sexual assault, according to ProPublica. He did not face legal charges.
The State Department will not comment on the status of his security clearance but acknowledges that every employee must go through a "background investigation" when their application for a security clearance is submitted.

"The process to receive or maintain a security clearance includes consideration of many aspects of an individual's life to determine whether that individual can be trusted with access to classified information," a State Department official wrote. Both personal and professional history matters in this review, and they look for qualities such as "loyalty, strength of character, trustworthiness, honesty, and reliability."