Several OVI checkpoints planned in Mahoning County this weekend
CANFIELD, Ohio - You may run into sobriety checkpoints and see more troopers and police patrolling highways in Mahoning County this weekend.
The Mahoning County OVI Task Force has announced it will conduct several checkpoints from Friday, June 11 through Sunday, June 13, 2021.
In addition, saturation patrols are planned.
The task force is expected to release the exact times and locations of the checkpoints shortly before they are set up.
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.
