Sobriety checkpoints being held in 17 counties in South Dakota in June

Eighteen sobriety checkpoints will be held in 17 South Dakota counties this month (June).

Checkpoints are scheduled for Edmunds, Jerauld, Jones, Lyman, Stanley and Walworth counties in central South Dakota. Sobriety checkpoints are also being held in Beadle, Brookings, Butte, Codington, Day, Douglas, Hamlin, Lincoln, Meade, Minnehaha and Yankton counties.

The checkpoints are funded by the South Dakota Office of Highway Safety and conducted by the South Dakota Highway Patrol with the help of local law enforcement. Officials remind drivers not to drink and drive regardless of whether there is a checkpoint planned in their county. People who have been drinking are urged to designate a sober driver or take an alternate form of transportation.

Both the Office of Highway Safety and the Highway Patrol are part of the Department of Public Safety.