Security & Clearance Levels

Security classifications, often known as security clearances, are statuses issued to personnel that enable them access to secret or confidential documents, as well as portions of Agency sites that are ordinarily off-limits to the general public. Clearance is often fairly limited in scope; most people cannot access everything, but rather an information pertinent to their present work. In other words, clearance standardizes the facts that you "need to know" in order to accomplish your job.

A security clearance is completely separate from an individual's personal rank and position; whatever is cleared to each person is entirely dependent on what they are supposed to be working on. For example, a Site administrator may have less access to ITEMs than a junior researcher, because what would an administrative staff member require in the case of an abnormality?

## Clearance Ratings

### Level 0 (Only for Official Use)

Level 0 security clearance is an informal classification given to non-essential individuals, notably Confined Subject sacrificial staff, test subjects, or contractors, who do not gain authentication to Agency or asset information. Access to sensitive Agency data is restricted, and only partial information should be shared to ensure Level 0 clearance workers can do their everyday jobs.

Personnel in non-secured clerical, logistical, or janitorial occupations at facilities with no access to operational information often have Level 0 access.

### Level 1 (Private)

Personnel with Level 1 security clearances operate in close proximity to anomalous items or beings in confinement but have no direct, indirect, or informational access to them. Level 1 security clearances are often issued to employees working in secretarial, transportation, or housekeeping roles at facilities with containment capabilities or who must handle sensitive information in any other capacity.

### Level 2 (Confidential)

Level 2 security clearances are granted to security and research employees who need direct access to information about abnormal items and phenomena under containment. The majority of research personnel, field agents, and confinement experts have a Level 2 security clearance.

### Level 3 (Secret)

Senior security and research employees who require in-depth data on the source, recovery circumstances, and long-term planning for anomalous items and entities under confinement are granted Level 3 security clearances. A Level 3 security clearance is held by the majority of senior research employees, project managers, security officers, reaction team members, and Mobile Task Force operatives.

### Level 4 (Top Secret)

Senior administrators who require access to site-wide and/or regional intelligence, as well as long-term strategic data on Foundation operations and research initiatives, are granted Level 4 security clearances. Site Directors, Security Directors, and Mobile Task Force Commanders are often the only people with Level 4 security clearances.

### Level 5 (Extraordinarily Secret)

Level 5 security clearances are granted to the Foundation's highest-ranking administrative professionals, granting them practically unfettered access to any strategic and otherwise sensitive material. Level 5 security clearances are normally provided only to members of The Omega Council and chosen employees.

## Personnel Classifications

Personnel is classified depending on their closeness to potentially harmful anomalous items, beings, or phenomena.

### Alpha Class

Alpha Class employees are those judged critical to local Agency operations, and they may only be permitted access to items, beings, and anomalies that have passed quarantine and have been cleared of any potential mind-altering effects or mimetic agents. In the event of a containment breach or malicious action against an Agency facility, Alpha Class employees must be evacuated as soon as possible to a specified, secure off-site location.

### Omega Class

Omega Class personnel are those deemed critical to Agency strategic operations and are never given direct access to abnormalities. When circumstances necessitate Omega Class people being in close proximity to such anomalies, Omega Class personnel are not permitted access to the regions of the facility harbouring such anomalies and must remain in secured areas at all times. In the event of an emergency, Omega Class employees must be evacuated quickly to a specified and secure off-site location. Members of the Omega Council are always Omega Class people.

### Sigma Class

Personnel in the Sigma Class have direct access to the majority of anomalies that are not strictly hostile or hazardous. Officers from the Sigma Class who have had direct contact with potentially mind-altering or mimetic qualities may be subjected to obligatory quarantine and mental examination if security personnel feel it essential. Non-combatant Sigma Class employees are to either report to secure lock-down areas or depart at the discretion of on-site security officers in the event of a site-wide breach or another catastrophic apocalypse in the event of a containment breach or hostile action against an Agency facility.

### Kappa Class

Kappa Class individuals are disposable personnel who deal with exceedingly dangerous anomalies and are not permitted to interact with Alpha or Omicron Class people. Kappa Class members are generally recruited from the ranks of jail convicts convicted of heinous crimes, particularly those on death row, all over the world. Protocol 42, which permits recruiting from other sources — such as political prisoners, refugee populations, and other civilian sources — that may be brought into Agency custody under plausibly deniable conditions, may be implemented in times of pressure. At the discretion of on-site security or medical staff, Kappa Class workers must undergo frequent required psychiatric assessments and be administered an amnestic of at least Omicron Class strength or be dismissed at the end of the month. In the case of a catastrophic site occurrence, Kappa Class workers must be dismissed immediately, unless on-site security officials feel it necessary.

### Epsilon Class

The Epsilon Class is a preliminary classification for field agents and containment staff who have been exposed to potentially harmful effects while securing and establishing initial containment over a newly-designated anomalous object, entity, or phenomena. Personnel from the Epsilon Class must be isolated as quickly as feasible, monitored, and checked for potentially dangerous changes in behavior, personality, or physiology, and may only return to duty after being properly debriefed and cleared by psychiatric and medical specialists.