Law enforcement agencies will hold sobriety checkpoints in 15 different counties this month (March 2025).
Checkpoints in central South Dakota will be conducted in: Edmunds, Jackson and Lyman counties. Other counties with checkpoints scheduled this month are Brookings, Clay, Codington, Custer, Fall River, Jerauld, Lawrence, Meade, Minnehaha, Pennington, Roberts and Spink.
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 or not 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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