The South Dakota Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement agencies will hold 16 sobriety checkpoints in 15 different counties this month (Jan. 2024).
The checkpoints will take place in Edmunds, Lyman, Jackson, Aurora, Codington, Fall River, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marshall, Meade, Minnehaha, Moody, Pennington, Sanborn and Yankton counties.
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 designed to encourage people to not drink and drive. 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.
Both the Office of Highway Safety and the Highway Patrol are agencies of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
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