CHP Plans Drunk Driver Checks
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SACRAMENTO — The Highway Patrol will set up Thanksgiving holiday checkpoints statewide to look for drunk drivers, CHP Commissioner James E. Smith said today.
He said the CHP decided to resume the use of sobriety checkpoints after a California Supreme Court decision Oct. 29 that upheld their legality, provided that officers observe constitutional safeguards. Further sobriety checkpoints will be set up in mid-December and during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period, he said.
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