Sets out what each clearance level allows and who may grant or revoke it, under Articles IV and VI of the Foundation Charter. Clearance belongs to the Foundation and only personnel hold it: Citizens and the Unregistered have none, and see only what the Foundation makes public. Other factions keep their own access rules.
1. The levels
| Level | Name | Typical holders | May read |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Official Use Only | New personnel | Public files and their own orders |
| 1 | Restricted | Junior staff in every department | Routine procedures, Safe-class summaries |
| 2 | Confidential | Researchers, guards and medics on containment duty | Containment procedures for the anomalies they work with |
| 3 | Secret | Senior researchers, MTF operatives, site leads, Ethics observers | Full anomaly files, incident and experiment records at their site |
| 4 | Top Secret | Site Directors, federal heads, senior command, Ethics Auditors | Records across sites, Keter and Thaumiel files |
| 5 | Thaumiel | The Administrator, the O5 Council, the Ethics Committee | Everything |
Clearance is the most a person may see. They also need a reason to know: a Level 3 researcher does not read another site's files without one.
1A. Classes
Clearance says what a member of personnel may read. A class says where a person stands with the Foundation: how close to anomalies they may work, and when they are moved to safety. Everyone the Foundation governs holds a class, A to F.
| Class | Who | Contact with anomalies | In an emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Essential to the whole Foundation: The Administrator, both councils, Site Directors | None. Kept in secure areas away from containment | Evacuated first, to a secure place off site |
| B | Essential to one site or department: Level 4 and Level 5 personnel | Only anomalies that have passed quarantine and screening | Evacuated off site as soon as possible |
| C | Most personnel: Level 0 to Level 3 | Direct contact with anomalies that are not strictly hostile | Shelter in lockdown areas, or evacuated as Security directs |
| D | Citizens, including Class-D personnel | None, except Class-D personnel in approved tests | Citizens shelter as Civil Administration directs; Class-D personnel are held in the D-Block or escorted out by Security |
| E | The Unregistered: refugees and survivors | None | Directed to shelter or out of the zone by Security |
| F | Anyone under a termination order | None | Held by Security |
- Personnel take their class from their post and clearance as the table shows; the authority that grants the clearance sets the class with it.
- A person becomes Class D on registering as a Citizen (Foundation Directive 005), and is Class E until then.
- Class-D personnel are Citizens in the Class-D Programme, drawn into it or volunteering for it (Class-D Programme Handbook). They stay Class D.
- Class F is set by a termination order, issued by the O5 Council, by a verdict of the Internal Tribunal, or by a Site Director during an Orange or higher alarm at their site. A Site Director's order lapses unless the O5 Council confirms it within 24 hours. Every termination order is subject to the Ethics Committee's veto (Charter, Article III). It lasts until the order is carried out or withdrawn; a withdrawn order returns the person to their previous class.
- Quarantine is a medical status, not a class. A Senior Doctor places anyone exposed to a dangerous effect in quarantine and lifts it after examination; the person keeps their class throughout.
- In the Roblox groups, the class is the letter on the rank: [A] to [F].
1B. Site-01 clearance and Site Clearance
Site-01 is the Foundation's federal seat; Sites 02 to 09 govern themselves under it (Charter, Article IV). Clearance is therefore held at two levels:
| Kind | Where it counts | Granted by |
|---|---|---|
| Site-01 clearance | Site-01 and federal command | The O5 Council and The Administrator; a federal head or the Chair of the Ethics Committee for their own staff, up to Level 3 |
| Site Clearance | One of Sites 02 to 09, each held separately | That site's Director, or the authorities in Section 2 |
- Site Clearance at one site gives no clearance at another site, and no clearance or authority at Site-01.
- A Site Director must hold Site-01 clearance. Directing a site gives them no authority at any other site, and they may not enter another site without its Site Clearance.
- A Site-01 officer who directs no site, and whose Site-01 clearance is at least a site's director level, has the same authority at that site as its Director. The O5 Council and The Administrator have that authority at every site.
- Ethics Committee staff on a mission hold the Site Clearance it needs at the site they are sent to, granted by the Chair for the mission's length (Charter, Article VI). They are escorted by the site's Security except where an escort would defeat the observation.
- A member's posting is the site they belong to. Only a site where they hold Site Clearance can be their posting.
2. Granting clearance
Site Clearance at a site is granted on Form C-01 by:
| Granted by | Up to |
|---|---|
| The site's Director | Their own level at the site (Level 4 unless set otherwise) |
| A Site-01 officer with that site's director authority (Section 1B) | Their Site-01 level |
| The O5 Council and The Administrator | Level 5 |
| The Chair of the Ethics Committee, for its staff on a mission | The level the mission needs, for its length |
Within a site, the Director may let department leads recommend grants for their staff; the grant itself stays with the Director.
Site-01 clearance is granted by the O5 Council. Each federal head, and the Chair of the Ethics Committee, may grant it to their own staff up to Level 3. Level 5 is granted by The Administrator on appointment to either council.
A grant is recorded with who granted it, when and why. The Promotion and Transfer Policy sets out what earns each level.
3. Losing clearance
- Clearance may be lowered by anyone who could have granted the level being removed, with a reason recorded. Removing a member's Site Clearance at a site also ends their posting and state department there.
- Clearance is lowered automatically when a member leaves the Foundation, and suspended while a member is under a disciplinary measure that removes their faction role.
- A member may appeal a reduction in character to the authority above the one who reduced it.
4. Handling information
- Do not share a file, or what is in it, with anyone below its clearance.
- Files carry their clearance on the first line. Redacted sections are marked with their own level.
- Losing or leaking a file is reported to the Site Director at once.
5. How the systems apply it
- Site-01 clearance is the member's rank in the SCP - Foundation Roblox group (Level 0 to Level 5, Site Director, O5 Council, The Administrator), read by the game when the member joins and every few minutes.
- Site Clearance, postings, Site Directors and state departments are recorded by the game, per member and per site, with who granted each and when. They will be kept in step with the archive server once its API exists. [STACK: decided in SCPM-1]
- The Discord bot gives each member the matching Level role, and the Roblox places check clearance on the server, never trusting the player.
- The Foundation Archive shows a file, or its redacted sections, only to readers at or above its clearance.
- Staff measures that remove a faction role also suspend clearance, under the Disciplinary Code.
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