PIERRE – Sobriety checkpoints will be held statewide during the month of June by the South Dakota Highway Patrol.
Checkpoints are planned for 18 counties.  The Highway Patrol conducts the checkpoints as a way to discourage motorists from drinking and then driving.
Counties scheduled for checkpoints in June are: Brown, Brule, Butte, Codington, Custer, Edmunds, Day, Davison, Hamlin, Hughes, Lake, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Roberts, Pennington, Sanborn, Spink and Yankton.