South Dakota Highway Patrol has announced that Jerauld is one of the 14 different counties chosen for sobriety checkpoints conducted during the month of May. These checkpoints will also take place in the counties of Brown, Charles Mix, Codington, Hughes, Jones, Lawrence, Meade, Minnehaha, Moody, Pennington, Roberts, Spink, 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.