---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 C.F.R. § 409.1"
title: "31"
number: "409.1"
heading: "Standard."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/31/409.1"
---

# §409.1. Standard.


In granting or denying a request for a security clearance made in response to an application for a White House press pass, officials of the Secret Service will be guided solely by the principle of whether the applicant presents a potential source of physical danger to the President and/or the family of the President so serious as to justify his or her exclusion from White House press privileges.


## Notes

### Amendments

[43 FR 26718, June 22, 1978]

### Authority

Authority: 18 U.S.C. 3056 and 3 U.S.C. 202.

### Amendments

[43 FR 26718, June 22, 1978]