South Dakota’s Department of Public Safety has scheduled 14 sobriety checkpoints in 12 counties this month (Feb. 2022).
The checkpoints are designed to encourage people not to drink and drive.
Checkpoints are planned for the counties of: Jones, Jerauld, Lyman, Walworth, Beadle, Brown, Clay, Lawrence, Lincoln, Meade, Minnehaha and Pennington.
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 commercial or public transportation.
The monthly 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.
Both the Office of Highway Safety and the Highway Patrol are agencies of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
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