PIERRE – South Dakota Highway Patrol troopers will conduct sobriety checkpoints in 20 South Dakota counties during the month of December.
Checkpoints are done monthly in various counties as a way to discourage people from drinking and driving.
December checkpoints are scheduled in the counties of Beadle, Brown, Butte, Charles Mix, Codington, Custer, Davison, Fall River, Grant, Hand, Hughes, Jackson, Lake, Lawrence, Minnehaha, Pennington, Roberts, Stanley, Walworth and Yankton.
The Highway Patrol is part of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.