Along with the beach, boating and baseball comes another summer tradition at the Jersey Shore: the sobriety checkpoint.
Brick police said Friday that Memorial Day weekend will kick off the department's annual slate of sobriety checkpoints.
Township police will partner with the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office to man the checkpoints – the dates and locations of which were not released publicly – that will last through the summer season.
Motorists traveling through the checkpoints will be contacted by uniformed officers, who will check for drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, said Sgt. David Bedrosian in a prepared statement.
Officers will also ensure that motorists have a valid driver's license and registration for their vehicles.
The checkpoints are designed to "promote public safety, increase awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving, and to serve as a deterrent to potential impaired and unlicensed drivers," the statement said.
But drunk driving isn't the only dangerous activity which sees an uptick over the Memorial Day holiday. The long weekend was the highest ranked holiday travel period for red light running, according to national statistics.
Memorial Day was the number one holiday weekend for running red lights last year in a study of violations in 142 areas in 18 states.
A report from the National Coalition for Safer Roads said 2.3 million drivers in 18 states surveyed ran a red light last year. The number of scofflaws was more than 27 percent higher on Memorial Day weekend than on an average non-holiday weekend.
The report also found that more red-light violations occurred on Friday than any other day of the week, and motorists were more likely to zoom through an intersection between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.; 30.7 percent of the violations occurred in the afternoon.
Monmouth County announces these DWI checkpoints all the time. If there is no notice in the paper, then it is considered illegal search, etc.
NJ Supreme Court ruled on process to be filed or any dwi is thrown out if not followed. The case is State v Kirk http://www.newjerseydwilawyer.com/lawyer-attorney-1679291.html
it will be thrown out... so all that money spent for nothing.. look at what monmouth prosecutors do and how they announce as an example.
Monmouth County does, indeed, choose to announce the specific times, dates and locations, however this level of detail is not a legal requirement.
it won't pass legal must... read the case law.. i did albeit they don't have to provide "exact location"... police need to prove why that location was selected be begin with otherwise doesn't pass legal muster.. typically road is given... not exact spot.. for instance, Rte. 88 or Mantoloking rd, or cedar bridge ave... etc.
The Appellate Division held that checkpoints must be "carefully targeted to a designated area at a specified time and place based on data justifying the site selection for reasons of public safety and reasonably efficacious or productive law enforcement goals." But the decision does NOT mandate that the specific time and place must be publicly disclosed or announced, whatsoever. The section of the ruling on disclosure holds that: "advance general publicity designed to deter drunken drivers from getting in cars in the first place" is a requirement, however there are no requirements to publicize the exact roadway, date or time at which the checkpoint is to be held.
That area is not good,and will be even worse when that CVS is built.