The Mahoning County OVI Task Force will conduct an OVI checkpoint sometime between Friday, December 6 and Sunday, December 8.

More specific details including the exact date, time and location of the checkpoint will be revealed on a later date.

The checkpoint will be accompanied by saturation patrols by various law enforcement agencies throughout Mahoning County in order to keep impaired drivers off the road.

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.

However, in their ruling, the justices did not specify what they considered adequate notification.
 

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