America's favorite summer holiday has arrived and many Southern Californians are planning to celebrate with barbeques, parties, and drinking. Yet it's a good idea to designate a sober driver when going out because the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and the California Highway Patrol have all announced that they're cracking down on drunk drivers this holiday weekend with Los Angeles DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols.
Through press releases, LAPD has announced that there will be checkpoints in Southern Los Angeles and in North Hollywood. So far, LAPD has confirmed checkpoints at the following locations.
- Friday July 2: Cahuenga Boulevard & Broadlawn Drive, North Hollywood, 6:00p.m. - 1:00a.m.
- Saturday July 3: Florence Avenue between Broadway and Main Street, Los Angeles, 6:00p.m. - 1:00a.m.
In addition to these LAPD checkpoints, law enforcers with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and California Highway Patrol will be conducting saturation patrols this weekend as an effort to arrest numerous drunk drivers on the road. The agencies will also be conducting other DUI checkpoints throughout Los Angeles County, according to the Avoid the 100 Los Angeles County DUI Task Force.
We cover the constraints that California law enforcers have when conducting DUI checkpoints in an earlier blog post titled "Los Angeles DUI Attorneys Analyze Sobriety Checkpoints." If you feel that law enforcement officers didn't go through the right procedures to conduct a checkpoint, you always have the legal right to a Los Angeles DUI attorney. Attorneys can help people avoid a DUI conviction and provide proper defense in court.
Related Resources:
- California DUI Law (FindLaw)
- Field Sobriety Tests and Sobriety Checkpoints (FindLaw)
- Find a Los Angeles DUI Attorney (FindLaw)
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