The Mahoning County OVI Task Force announced this evening that is conducting a checkpoint in Austintown.

A task force media release says the checkpoint will run from 10:30 p.m. Friday until 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

That address is near Hollywood Gaming. 

There will also be local saturation patrols throughout Mahoning County.

In 1990 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that holding sobriety checkpoints without first notifying drivers would violate the Constitution's provision barring illegal search and seizure.

In their ruling, however, the justices did not spell out what they considered to be adequate notification.

That same year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published recommended procedures for OVI checkpoints which included notifying the media of the planned roadblocks.