Franklin Police Set Friday DUI Checkpoints

FRANKLIN, TN — Franklin Police will set up two sobriety checkpoints Friday night in an effort to stop impaired drivers. The checkpoint locations will be on South Royal Oaks Boulevard and Hillsboro Road.

Through grant funding awarded by the Tennessee Highway Safety Office, the FPD is provided with support and resources that help to combat impaired driving, including sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols, training, equipment, and overtime pay for Franklin Police Officers conducting those checkpoints and patrols.

The State of Tennessee requires pre-publication of sobriety checkpoints as a result of the Downey decision in 1997, in which the State Supreme Court ruled that pre-publication of checkpoints is required to limit arbitrary intrusions prohibited by the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, as well as the rights delineated in the Tennessee Constitution.

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