Law enforcement agencies will hold sobriety checkpoints in 16 different South Dakota counties this month (Oct. 2025).
The checkpoints will take place in Brule, Edmunds, Jones and Stanley counties in the central part of the state. Other counties where sobriety checkpoints are scheduled are Brown, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Lake, Lawrence, Meade, Minnehaha, Pennington, Sanborn and Yankton.
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.
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.
Both the Office of Highway Safety and the Highway Patrol are agencies of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
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