The Mahoning County Taskforce in partnership with the Ohio State Highway Patrol will be holding a sobriety checkpoint tonight, Aug. 16, in Boardman.

It will begin at 10 p.m. and last until 2 a.m. on Market Street near Ferncliff, according to a news release from the Mahoning County OVI Taskforce.

Saturation patrols will also be conducted throughout the county this weekend.

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 spell out what they considered to be 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.

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